THRUSH. 53 



34— ORANGE-EYED THRUSH. 



Sturnus Nabouroup, Daud. ii. 308. Levail. Afr. ii. 168. pi. 91. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; and, at first sight, like the last, but diners 

 in having the tail two inches shorter, and almost even at the end, the 

 outer feather being only eight lines shorter than the middle ones, 

 which are nearly all of a length : the eyes of this bird are orange- 

 yellow ; the colours of the plumage much as in the other, but in the 

 present bird the feathers are less silky, shorter, and not so glossy ; it 

 differs likewise, from the former, which has the quills rufous on both 

 webs, but in the last described they are only so on the outer ones, the 

 inner being white. 



The female is smaller, and has the head, neck, and part of the 

 breast inclining to grey. 



This species inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of 

 Africa, and the Dutch Colonists call it Witte-vlerk-Spreuw (White- 

 winged Starling) is chiefly found about the small and great Nama- 

 quas, from nearly 30 deg. of latitude, to beneath the Tropic, and 

 said to build among the rocks : is fond of the berries of a sort of 

 ebony, which grows very common there, and is thought a very good 

 bird for the table. 



35— RUFOUS-WINGED THRUSH. 



Turdus erythropterus, Ind. Orn. i. 346. Gm. Lin. i. S35. 

 Le Podobe du Senegal, Buf. iii. 368. PL enl. 354. 

 Rufous-winged Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 55. Shaw's Zool. x. 280. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length ten inches. Bill brown ; general 

 colour of the plumage black ; wings rufous, and short; under tail 



