54 THRUSH. 



coverts tipped with white ; tail cuneiform, the two middle- feathers 

 plain, the others tipped with white. 

 Inhabits Senegal. 



36.— SPLENDID THRUSH. 



Sturnus splendens, Daud. ii. 309. Shaw's Zool. vii. 372. 

 L'Eclatant, Levail. Afr. ii. 142. pi. 85. 



THIS is of the same shape and size as the African Thrush. 

 Plumage wholly green, glossed with blue, appearing gilded, and 

 changing with different reflections of light ; the crown imitates the 

 emerald, the lower part of the neck as it were surrounded with a 

 gilded purple, reaching to the scapulars, which incline to copper 

 yellow, as also the throat, fore part of the neck and breast; beneath 

 the body dusky, glossed with greenish copper; lesser wing, and 

 upper tail coverts glossy steel blue ; greater coverts copper, dotted 

 with gold; tail greatly cuneiform, of a duck green, glossed with 

 purple, or violet; down the middle of the wing, on the second quills, 

 a white streak ; bill and legs black. 



Where it inhabits is uncertain. Mr. L. found it in the cabinet 

 of Mr. J. Temminck, at Amsterdam. 



37.— SHEWY THRUSH. 



Sturnus ornatus, Daud. ii. 309. 



Le Choucador, Levail. Afr. ii. 144. pi. 86. 



THIS is a trifle less than the last; the ground colour of the 

 plumage black, but with reflections of different glossy tints, as in 

 that bird ; the tail cuneiform, but in a much less degree ; it is 



