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55 —GREEN THRUSH. 



Turdus viresceus, Lid. Orn. i. 351. Gm. Lin.i. 830. Georgi, 505. 

 Green Thrush, Gen. St/n. iii. 65. Shaw's Zool. x. 249. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black, yellow beneath, with a 

 brown tip ; head, neck, and upper parts of the body greyish green ; 

 over the eyes a white streak ; beneath them a white spot ; throat 

 grey, spotted with white ; breast and sides pale rufous ; belly and 

 vent white ; thighs mixed cinereous and white ; some of the quills 

 brown, others grey; tail even at the end; legs and claws yellowish. 



Supposed to inhabit China. — Georgi describes the above from 

 one kept in a cage ; and says, that it sang well, and was fond of 

 wetting itself with water, like the Starling. 



56— OLIVE THRUSH. 



Turdus olivaceus, Lid. Orn. i. 351. Lin. i. 292. Id. Mant. 1771, 526. Gm. Lin. i. 810. 

 — — ocrogaster, Mus. Carls, iv. t. 85 ? 



Merula olivacea Cap. B. Spei, Bris. ii. 294. t. 22. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 240. 

 Le Grivrou, Levail. Afr. iii. 5. pi. 98. 99. 

 Merle olive du Cap. de B. E. Bnf. iii. 381. 

 Olive Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 66. Shaw's Zool. x. 1S9. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill brown ; upper parts of 

 the plumage olive-brown, the under yellow; throat yellow brown, 

 spotted with brown ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. — Linnaeus adds, that the lore 

 is black, parts above brownish grey ; rump, and under parts ferru- 

 ginous, the two middle feathers of the tail brown, the others 

 ferruginous; and in one specimen the head was hoary. — M. Levail- 

 lant's bird differed from that of Brisson but little, the under tail 

 coverts were white ; the tail somewhat hollowed out at the end, but 

 scarcely to be called forked ; and the wings reach to about one-third. 



