86 THRUSH. 



The female is smaller, no dusky spot between the bill and eye, 

 the two outer tail feathers margined with white. 



Inhabits Africa; common in the Forests of Hottniqua, on the 

 Borders of Sondag and Swarte Kop ; always on high trees, seven or 

 eight together, the cry like Li-it, but weak : the nest is not known : 

 feeds on Caterpillars; M. Levaillant opened sixty-six specimens, and 

 did not find any thing else in the stomach. This bird is very full of 

 feathers, especially on the rump, but those easily fall off, and the 

 skin so tender and greasy, as to render it difficult to remove it 

 without tearing. 



80— YELLOW CATERPILLAR THRUSH. 



Echenilleur jaune, Levail. Afr.'w. 49. pi. 164. 



LESS than the last. Bill smaller, brown ; upper parts pale 

 olive-brown ; the feathers tinged and tipped with yellow, and each 

 feather waved with black ; beneath, and between the bill and eye, 

 yellowish white, tinged with brown, also waved with black ; greater 

 wing coverts, quills, and tail black, margined with yellow ; tail as 

 in the last ; legs brown. 



81 —BLACK CATERPILLAR THRUSH. 



L'Echenilleur noir, Levail. Afr. iv. 51. pi. 165. 



SMALLEST of the three. Bill black ; irides dusky brown ; 

 colour of the plumage glossy blue black, or greenish ; inner parts 

 of the quills olive-green, so as to appear beneath all of that colour ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits the borders of the Gamtoos, more particularly than 

 elsewhere: nest and eggs not known. Probably migratory. 



