100 THRUSH. 



This is a common and familiar bird at Tetuan, in Barbary, and 

 called Chouchou, and is there a regular Bird of Passage, coming in 

 the spring : it breeds in the garden walls, and forsakes the district 

 before winter ; feeds entirely on fruit, but is most fond of oranges ; 

 is very impatient of confinement in a cage. In colour it corresponds 

 most with the American Mocking Bird, and the voice, as in that, is 

 very sonorous, and musical, much superior to any of its congeners in 

 Europe. It is usual for the inhabitants to keep two of these at 

 different parts of the house, or garden, where they hold as it were a 

 dialogue with each other ; the notes are amazingly loud, and har- 

 monious, though not observed to imitate other sounds. 



A specimen of the above was once met with at Gibraltar, as Mr. 

 White, from whose notes I have taken the above, informed me. 



109— CRAVAT THRUSH. 



La Cravatte blanche, Levail. Afr. in. 68. pi. 115. 

 Motacilla dubia, Nat. Misc. xxii. pi. 949. 



SIZE of a large Lark. Bill black ; head black, passing on 

 each side of the neck, and finishing in a crescent on the breast ; at 

 the nape, under the black, is a collar of yellow, which passes beneath 

 the crescent on the breast, and continues to the vent ; the chin and 

 throat, within the black, are white ; the upper parts of the back, 

 wings, and rump, aie yellowish, or olive-green ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with grey ; tail the same, rounded at the end, the edges 

 greenish, the wings reach very little beyond the rump ; legs dusky 

 brown. 



Said to inhabit Batavia. — M. Levaillant only saw the skin of one. 



