88 THRUSH. 



84— YELLOW-CROWNED THRUSH. 



Turdus ochrocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. 355. Gm. Lin. i. 821. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 149. 

 Sturnus Zeylanicus, Gm. Lin. i. 804. 

 Ceylonese Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 11. 



Yellow-crowned Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 74. Id. Sup. 143. Brown. III. p. 50. t. 22. 

 Shaw's Zooh x. 200. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black, bent a little at the tip, at 

 the base a few bristles ; space round the eye, and a large patch on 

 each side of the chin black ; chin white ; round the eye a circle 

 of yellow ; the rest of the head fine yellow ; upper parts of the neck, 

 back, lesser wing coverts, and rump, reddish brown, margins of the 

 feathers pale ; under parts, from the throat to the belly, pale greenish 

 grey; belly, thighs, and vent, yellowish ; tail three inches and a half 

 long, a trifle hollowed out in the middle, but each half is rounded in 

 itself, so that the outer feather on each side is shortest ; legs stout 

 and black ; colour of the wings and tail brown, with pale edges ; 

 each portion of the tail feathers turns a little outwards. 



Inhabits Malacca. — From the collection of drawings of Sir J. 

 Anstruther ; and I make no doubt is the Yellow-crowned Thrush of 

 Brown, which is found at Ceylon : this bird has the crown of the 

 head and cheeks pale yellow, lower part of the latter bounded by a 

 black line, extending from the bill ; breast and belly cinereous ; the 

 first marked with white and dusky sagittal lines ; quills, tail, and 

 legs dull green. 



Inhabits Ceylon and Java, and is there called Tsutju crawany, 

 also Chuchak-rawa; is frequently kept in cages, and imitates, in 

 a very lively manner, almost every note that is whistled to it. It 

 answers, too, to the Ceylonese Stare, which has a black streak 

 through the eyes, and another beneath the cheeks ; but the tail is 

 there said to be barred pea-green and black, which is not the case in 



