70 THRUSH. 



The female is smaller, and the colours paler ; while young both 

 sexes have a rufous tinge in the plumage, especially on the margins 

 of the quills; throat spotted with dusky brown, also the breast and 

 sides. It is a bird of passage at the Cape, for the most part ; yet 

 some stay and breed, especially about Constance, or Ronde Bosch, 

 and all places where there are vineyards, particularly at the time of 

 the grapes ripening : the eggs are laid in November, four or five in 

 number, of a greenish white, spotted with red brown, especially at 

 the larger end : the nest composed of small twigs, lined with the 

 fibres of roots, and artfully fabricated. It feeds on fruits of many 

 kinds, soft berries, worms, larvae of insects, &c. 



57— RUFOUS-BELLIED THRUSH. 



LENGTH eight inches and a quarter. Bill from the gape three 

 quarters of an inch, a little bent at the tip, with a slight notch ; 

 head, neck, and upper parts deep brown ; chin and throat paler, or 

 ash-colour; breast, and beneath wholly bright ferruginous ; the first 

 quill is very short, the fourth longest ; tail four inches long, deep 

 brown, the inner web and quill, and part of the outer web at the 

 tip, white ; and a little of the inner web about the middle also white ; 

 the second white on both webs, for near one inch from the tip ; the 

 third only tipped with white ; the rest of one colour ; the wings reach 

 about half way on the tail ; legs dusky yellow. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



A. — Length eight inches and a half. Bill brown ; top of the 

 head, taking in the eye on each side, black ; back and wings chest- 

 nut-brown; middle of several of the quills white, forming a serrated 

 spot ; all the under parts from the chin pale rufous ; sides under the 



