THRUSH. 85 



from the tip, but from the middle to the base yellow, forming a spot 

 on the wing ; tail cuneiform ; above reddish brown, beneath golden 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Amboina, and is said to sing very finely ; is remarkable 

 for flirting up the tail quite on the back in breeding season. 



78.-— BOURBON THRUSH. 



Turdus Borbonicus, Lid. Orn. i. 355. Gm. Lin. i. 821. 



Merula Borbonica, Bris. iii. 293. t. 24. 3 ? Id. 8vo. i. 239. Buf. iii. 395. 



Bourbon Thrush, Gen. Si/n. iii. 73. Shaw's Zool. x. 301. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill yellowish ; crown black, the rest 

 of the head, neck, and breast, and upper part, cinereous olive, beneath 

 olive yellow ; middle of the belly whitish ; greater wing coverts 

 brown, mixed with pale rufous ; quills brown, edged with the same, 

 except three of the middle ones, which are plain brown ; tail brown ; 

 with two transverse brown bands near the end, one of them paler 

 than the other; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon. 



79.--GREY CATERPILLAR THRUSH. 



L'Echenilleur gris, Levail. Afr. iv. 47. pi. 162. 163. 



SIZE of a Lark, but appears much larger. Bill black ; plu- 

 mage slaty grey, deeper on the head, and paler beneath ; before and 

 beneath the eye dusky ; breast the same ; from this to the vent still 

 paler ; quills brownish, edged outwardly with white ; tail the colour 

 of the back, of a singular shape, longish, but as it were doubly 

 cuneiform ; the two middle feathers are shorter than the next, and so 

 on to the one on each side, which is the shortest of all ; legs dusky. 



