THRUSH. 83 



76.— LONG-TAILED THRUSH— Pl. lxxxii. 



Turd us macrourus, Ind. Orn.i. 354. Gm. Lin. i. 820. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 147. 



Gobe-mouche a longue Queue de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 196. 



Merle tricolor a longue Queue, Levail. Afr. iii. 67. pl. 114. 



Long-tailed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 72. pl. 39. Shaw's Zool. x: 267. pl. 25. 



SIZE of a Lark ; length eleven inches and a half. Bill slightly 

 notched at the tip, and black ; head, neck, back, and wing coverts, 

 glossy purplish black ; rump white ; beneath, from the breast, fer- 

 ruginous orange; quills dusky black; tail greatly cuneiform ; the 

 two middle feathers six inches and a half long, the outer only two 

 inches and a half; the four middle are wholly black, the next half 

 black half white ; the three outer ones wholly white ; legs pale 

 yellow, claws black. 



Inhabits Pulo Condore ; also in Java ; carries the tail like a 

 Magpie. In the different drawings of Indian birds, I find all 

 Varieties in the length of the tail, though generally agreeing in the 

 colours of the plumage; but I suspect, that, it being in some of them 

 called the Persian Nightingale, it is probably kept in cages ; and on 

 that account liable to have the tail more or less spoiled, as is the case 

 with the Magpie, and other long-tailed birds. It is called in India, 

 Suina ;* has a most melodious note, and the finest come from Beliah. 

 Sonnerat's bird was from the coast of Malabar; in his the four middle 

 tail feathers were black ; the others half black half white. 



A. — Length seven inches. General colour black, from breast to 

 vent rufous ; bill black ; legs orange ; tail two inches and a quarter 

 long, even at the end, or very little rounded, the wings reach just 

 beyond the base, some of the outer feathers white; name Shaumaun, 

 a female. In another drawing the general colour is brown black ; 



* In General Hardwicke's Drawings, Samer — seen at Cawnpore, Dec. 1797. 



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