74 THRUSH. 



back, wings, and tail deep grey ; breast, belly, thighs, and vent, 

 very pale reddish grey ; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel, chiefly seen on the ground, 

 where it is perpetually hopping after worms and insects, which it 

 finds in the dung of animals, whence it has obtained the name of 

 Fouille-merde. 



64.— CHARUK THRUSH. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill one inch, stout, dull 

 yellow ; general colour of the plumage rufous brown ; quills and 

 tail darker, the last even at the end ; through the eye, or rather 

 above it, a dusky white streak ; on the under jaw, from the chin, a 

 second streak, curving in the direction of it, bounded below with 

 dusky ; breast marked with some sagittal black spots ; belly yel- 

 lowish ; thighs and vent nearly white ; tail even at the end ; wings 

 reach one-third on it ; legs oker yellow. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel. — Sir J. Anstruther. In the 

 same drawings is a bird, nearly similar : this has no streak over the 

 eye, but the white crescent, bounded with black, is more con- 

 spicuous than in the other. This last was titled, a Sort of Thrush, 

 with red feathers on the sides under the wings ; but the wing being 

 closed in the drawing, this did not appear. The name given to it 

 was Charuk. 



65.- GUINEA THRUSH. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and one-eighth , whitish ; 

 nostrils open, oval, large at the base, and the feathers come very 

 forward ; head flat at the top ; colour of it, the neck, and back, pale 

 ash ; belly cinereous white ; rump and vent white ; wings deep 



