94 THRUSH. 



each feather margined with yellow ; quills and tail black, the last 

 short, being only sixteen lines in length ; legs black. 



Inhabits Madagascar, where it is known by the name of Saui-jala. 



99— ETHIOPIAN THRUSH 



Turdus jEthiopicus, Lid. Orn. i. 357. Gm. Lin. i. S24. 



Le Merle noir et blanc d'Abyssinie, Buf. iii. 406. 



Le Boubou, Levail. Ois. ii. 73. pL 68. 1. 2. 



Ethiopian Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 78. Jd. Sup. ii. 180. Shaw's Zool. x. 532. 



SIZE of the Redwing. Bill and legs black ; plumage on the 

 upper parts the same, the under white, with a band of white across 

 the wing; tail rounded, but the feathers somewhat square at the 

 ends. Found in the woods of Abyssinia, chiefly among the thickest 

 part of the foliage, and has the note of aCuckow. Levaillant says, 

 the female is rather smaller, and more brown, the bar on the wings 

 pale rufous : young birds have no white about them, and are like 

 females ; his bird is common from the Cape of Good Hope to 

 Caffraria, but not in Great Namaqua Land ; its cry among the thick 

 bushes is like the word Boubou-coui, the three first syllables the 

 same, the fourth rising seven notes : the male sounds the two first, 

 and the female answering with the two latter, so that any person 

 may mistake these notes as issuing from one bird : they make the 

 nest among the thorny bushes, and lay four or five eggs. 



100— ABYSSINIAN THRUSH. 



Turdus Abyssinicus, Lid. Orn. i. 357. Gm. Lin. i. 824. 



Merle bruD d'Abyssinie, Buf. iii. 407. 



Abyssinian Thrush, Gen Syn. iii. 78. Shaw's Zool. x. 269. 



SIZE of the last. The upper parts brown; quills and tail deeper 

 brown, bordered with paler ; throat pale brown ; under parts of the 



