THRUSH. 81 



74 —CAPE THRUSH. 



Turdus Cafer, Ind. Orn. i. 354. Lin. i. 295. Gm. Lin. i. 820. 



Merula cristata Cap. B. Spei, Bris. ii. 257. t. 20. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 229. 



Merle huppe du Cap de B. E. Buf. iii. 393. PI. enl. 563. 1. 



Le Curouge, Lev ail. Afr. iii. 44. pi. 107. 1. 



Gobe mouche a tete noire de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 267. 



Cape Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 72. Shaw's Zool. x. 298. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch, blackish ; head a little 

 crested, and violet black ; upper parts of the body brown, the feathers 

 margined with grey ; fore part of the neck, and breast brown, glossed 

 with violet; belly brown, the feathers edged with grey; lower belly, 

 thighs, and rump, white ; vent and under tail coverts red, and one 

 inch in length ; quills and tail brown ; the last cuneiform, the base 

 of it brown, the tip white; legs black. 



A. — In this the head and chin are black ; plumage of the body, 

 and wings brownish ash-colour, streaked with pale brown ; under 

 the body cinereous white ; vent crimson ; three of the outer tail 

 feathers tipped with white. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. The last in the Museum of 

 the late Dr. Hunter. 



B. — In a specimen in the collection of General Davies, the crown 

 of the head is black ; chin dusky ash-colour ; belly and thighs pale 

 reddish ash-colour ; rump white ; vent red ; three of the outer tail 

 feathers with the ends white, for one-fifth of their length ; at the base 

 of the bill several hairs ; besides which are four hairs which rise above 

 the eyes, longer than any feathers of the crest ; tail scarcely cunei- 

 form. Levaillant gives much the same description, and says, the 

 female is smaller than the male ; is found among the great Namaquas 



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