96 THRUSH. 



black, checquered with white ; outmost prime quill black, the rest 

 of them rusty brown, tipped with ash ; neck before, breast, and belly 

 white, barred with curved, black marks; tail dusky; legs yellowish. 

 Inhabits India. — Lady Impey. It is called Cowal, from the 

 note imitating that word : gorges fruit till torpid, and after a time 

 flings up the stones. The Emperor forbids his army to keep the 

 field when this bird appears. 



104.— MINUTE THRUSH. 



Turd us minutus, Ind. Orn. i. 363. Mus. Carls, iii. t. 68. 

 Minute Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 181. Shaw's Zool. x. 242. 



THIS is less than four inches in length. Bill and legs brown; 

 general colour of the plumage rusty brown, beneath inclining to ash- 

 colour ; chin whitish ; two or three of the prime quills dusky, the 

 others black, but ferruginous in the middle ; many of the secondaries 

 tipped with ferruginous, and the rest wholly of that colour ; the four 

 middle tail feathers are black, the rest ferruginous. 



Where this inhabits is uncertain. 



105.— BLACK AND SCARLET THRUSH. 



Turdus speciosus, Ind. Orn. i. 363. 



Black and Scarlet Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 146. Shaw's Zool. x. 273. 



SIZE of a Song Thrush ; length eight inches and a half. Bill 

 dusky black, rather stout, a little bent at the tip ; from the gape to 

 the tip three inches and three quarters ; head, neck, upper part of the 

 back, greater part of the wings, and two middle tail feathers black ; 

 the under parts from the throat, lower half of the back, rump, and 

 vent, a rich deep scarlet ; the middle wing coverts, and the rest of 

 the tail feathers the same, also three spots near the tips of three of 

 the second quills ; tail rounded at the end ; legs black. 



