122 TKRUSH. 



marked on the wing coverts with black ; the inner part of the quills 

 is also black ; chin white ; belly dirty, pale yellow oker ; below each 

 ear a large, oval, dusky black patch ; tail wholly black ; legs dusky 

 yellow. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; met with in December. 



One of these, among the drawings of Mr. Francillon, had, instead 

 of the dusky black patch beneath the eye, a series of small black 

 spots ; tail rather long, and all but the two middle feathers white at 

 the ends ; irides red. This probably differs in sex. 



151.— VOLATILE THRUSH. 



Tuidus volitans, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xli. 



Volatile Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 183. Shaio's Zool. x. 290. 



LENGTH nine inches, shape slender. Bill rather slight, and 

 black ; head, neck, upper parts of the body, and tail black ; under 

 parts white; tail long, even at the end; the wings, when closed, 

 reach to the middle of it ; legs slender, dusky* 



Inhabits various parts of New-Holland, and is not uncommon ; 

 observed to hover, frequently in company with a bird of the Grosbeak 

 Genus, about two feet from the ground, making sudden darts on 

 something, which, by attention, was found to be a sort of worm, 

 which this bird, by a chirping note, and tremulous motion of the 

 wings, with the tail widely expanded, seemed to fascinate, or entice 

 out of its hole in the ground : the account adds, that the bird itself 

 is, in its turn, equally fascinated by a snake ; but this, if true, does 

 not seem peculiar to the Species, as we find it recorded of other birds. 



Among the drawings of Mr. Lambert is one, which corresponds 

 greatly, but differs in having the middle of the belly and thighs 

 dusky black ; and the tail, which is four inches long, tipped with 

 white. 



