62 THRUSH. 



In a drawing, in the collection of the late General Da vies, I 

 observed the ends of the outer tail feathers to be white ; breast, and 

 under parts white ; bill and legs dusky black. 



A bird, sent with the above as a female, was in plumage not 

 unlike a Lark, with a mixture of ferruginous, somewhat resembling 

 the female of the Red-winged Oriole ; belly white, dashed on the 

 sides with marks and streaks of brown ; inner webs of the quills 

 tawny; middle of the belly, vent, and under tail coverts white. 



45.—DOMINICAN THRUSH. 



Turdus Dominicanus, Tnd.Orn.i. 348. Gm. Lin. i. 836. 



Merle dominiquain des Philippines, Buf. iii. 395. PL enl. 627. 2. 



Dominican Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 58. Shaw's Zoo/, x. 262. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill pale brown ; plumage above brown, 

 marked here and there with a mixture of violet, or polished steel 

 colour; base of the tail of this last colour, towards the end greenish ; 

 head, and all the under parts of the body, very light coloured, or 

 brownish white ; legs pale brown ; the wings remarkably long, 

 reaching nearly to the end of the tail. 



This was brought from the Philippine Islands by M. Sonnerat. 



46.— BARRED-TAIL GLOSSY THRUSH. 



LENGTH about twelve inches. Bill black ; general colour of 

 the plumage varied, and glossed with blue, green, and copper, most 

 brilliant ; the lesser quills tipped with rufous, forming a crescent on 

 that part of the wing ; the greater quills dusky ; tail six inches long, 

 and cuneiform, the two middle feathers dark, with a greenish gloss, 

 and crossed with eighteen or twenty bars of black ; the exterior 



