THRUSH. 101 



110— WHITE-CROWNED THRUSH. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill stout, black, with a slight notch at 

 the tip ; crown of the head white, mixed with grey streaks, and 

 mottled with a little brown at the nape ; sides of the head, neck 

 behind, back, and wings, fine brown ; lower part of the back, rump, 

 and under wing coverts fine tawny orange ; all the under parts of 

 the body the same, but just under the bill brown ; the same also in 

 the direction of the under jaw ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 brown, five inches long, the others tawny orange, the outer one only 

 two inches and a half, with a long streak of brown on the outer 

 web ; legs stout, brown. 



Said to be an African Species. We have observed some speci- 

 mens to differ a little ; in these the white crown is continued even 

 beyond the nape, and has a mixture of black; that part of the 

 plumage, which in others is brown, in the last mentioned is greenish 

 black. This bird seems in many points to coincide with the follow- 

 ing, but is a much larger species ; yet we have seen one in Mr. 

 Bullock's Museum no more than seven inches in length. 



One in Mr. Comyns's collection is eleven inches long. Bill from 

 gape one inch ; it answers to the above description, and the tail 

 cuneiform ; longest feather six inches ; shortest three inches and a 

 half; and this was brown on the outer web. I suspect the two 

 middle tail feathers to have been wanting, and that they are brown. 



111.— RED-TAILED THRUSH. 



Turdus phsenicurus, Incl. Orn. i. 333. Gm. Lin. i. 816. 

 Motacilla pectoralis, Nat. Misc. xxii. pi. 265. 

 Le Janfredric, Levail. Afr. iii. 54. pi. 11. f. 1. 2. 

 Red-tailed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 31. Shaw's Zool. x. 300. 



THIS is a trifle larger than the Nightingale ; length from seven 

 to eight inches. Bill slender, dusky horn-colour, with a faw hairs 



