THRUSH. 115 



colour ; plumage in general rufous brown ; quills edged with dusky ; 

 tail dusky, and rounded at the end ; legs dusky black. 

 Inhabits the Island of Ulietea. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



134— LONG-BILLED THRUSH. 



Turdus longirostris, Ind. Orn. i. 352. Gm. Lin. i. 823. 

 Long-billed Thrnsh, Gen. Syn. iii. 67. Shaw's Zool. x. 302. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill one inch and a hal f 

 moderately bent, brownish flesh-colour, near the tip an obscure 

 notch ; at the gape a few weak, black hairs ; tongue the length of 

 the bill, and jagged at the end; visage somewhat elongated; feathers 

 of the head short, and pointed; eyelids surrounded with small, 

 feathery tufts ; upper parts of the body pale olive-brown ; over the 

 eye a pale, yellow streak ; wing coverts, and quills margined with 

 yellow, and the rump is also yellowish ; all the under parts pale 

 brimstone-colour ; tail much rounded in shape, or somewhat cunei- 

 form, the two middle feathers being three inches and a half long, the 

 outer one two inches and a half; the two middle are brown, with 

 pale ends; the others dull yellow, with white shafts; legs one inch 

 and a half long, dusky black ; shins quite smooth, except the bottom 

 next the joint ; toes long, hind claw large. 



Inhabits the Island of Eimeo. Some of these birds, from York 

 Island, had a greater mixture of pale buff* on the wing coverts, were 

 also mottled with dusky, and buff throughout : these were probably 

 young birds. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



135— BLACK AND ASH-COLOURED THRUSH. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length almost nine inches. Bill from 



the gape seven-eighths of an inch, yellow; eyelids yellow; head, 



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