THRUSH. 65 



51.— CEYLON THRUSH. 



Turdus Zeylonus, Lid. Orn.\. 349. Lin. i. 297. Gm.Lin.i. 837. 



Lanius Bacbakiri, Shaw's Zoo/, vii. 319. 



Merula torquata Cap. B. Spei, Bris. ii. 299. t. 30. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 241. 



Turdus Cevlanticus, Spalowsk. 1. t. 5. 



Le Bacbakiri, Levail. Ois. ii. 65. pi. 67. — Male & fern. 



Le Plastron de Ceylon, Bvf. iii. 374. PL enl. 272. 



Green Pye of Ceylon, Edw. pi. 321. 



Ceylon Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 62. Id. Sup. ii. 179. Shaw's Zool. x; 253. 



SIZE of a Blackbird; length seven inches and a half. Bill 

 black; crown of the head cinereous olive; from thence to the tail 

 olive green ; over the eye a streak of yellow ; chin and throat yellow ; 

 from the nostrils, through the eye, a black streak, bending forwards 

 to the fore part of the neck, and blending itself with a deep crescent 

 of the same on the breast ; belly, thighs, and vent, yellow ; tail 

 cuneiform, three inches and a half long, the two middle feathers 

 like the back, the others black, with yellow tips ; legs blackish. 



The female differs, being less vivid in colour, and the crescent, 

 though not far different, is less conspicuous. 



Young birds do not obtain this last distinction till of mature age. 



Inhabits Ceylon, and the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where it goes by the name of Bacbakiri ; in some cantons 

 called Jentje bibi and Couit, Couit, from some of the notes imitating 

 those words ; called also by the inhabitants Geele Canari-byter or 

 Yellow Canary-eater. M. Levaillant observes, that it not only 

 is commonly seen at large, but frequently comes into the gardens at 

 the Cape. The male and female for the most part seen together, 

 and make the nest among the thick bushes, the hen laying four or 

 five eggs, on which both sexes sit by turns, and the young continue 

 in society, with their parents, till the spring following. 



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