60 THRUSH. 



worms, excrements of cattle, and berries of all kinds ; will also 

 perch on the backs of oxen, to pick the insects out of their skin. 



In the collection ot Mr. Brogden is a specimen, which we believe 

 to be the same ; it is ten inches and a half long ; from the nostrils to 

 the eye a stripe of short velvet-like feathers ; those also under the 

 eye, on the cheeks, and ear short, but glossy steel blue ; all the 

 upper parts of the bird fine glossy green ; wings in general the same, 

 but the middle of the back, the scapulars, and inner coverts are steel 

 blue, and equally glossy ; tail four inches long, much rounded, 

 glossy steel blue, with gilded green ends ; the outer feather one inch 

 and a quarter shorter than the middle ones ; beneath the wing and 

 tail dusky ; all the under parts from chin to vent steel blue, glossy, 

 with a gilded purple, here and there, about the breast ; under tail 

 coverts gilded green ; the wings reach more than half way on the tail. 



Inhabits Africa. Brought from Sierra Leona. 



42— VIOLET THRUSH. 



Ttirdus violaceus, Lid. Orn. i. 347. Gm. Lin. i. 829. 

 Sturnus violaceus, Daud. ii. 314. 



Merle bleu de la Chine, Son. Voy. Lid. ii. 188. pi. 108. 

 Violet Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 57. Skate's Zool. x. 25l. 



SIZE of our Blackbird. Bill black ; irides red ; the whole 

 plumage of a violet, changeable blue ; the feathers of the head, 

 neck, breast, and wing coverts have at the ends a band of violet 

 blue, varying with the lustre of polished metal ; on the wing coverts 

 are two feathers marked with a white band ; thighs white within, 

 and deep violet without; legs black. 



Inhabits China. 



