130 THRUSH. 



beneath from the chin, fine yellow; sides of the head deep chocolate 

 brown, continuing in a streak on each side of the lower jaw; hind 

 part of the neck, back, and wings, much the same, but the back 

 deepest; quills and tail rufous brown, the feathers of the latter equal 

 in length, but somewhat divided in the middle; legs slender, brown. 

 Inhabits New-Holland. Met with at Port-Jackson in December; 

 has the manners of a Thrush, and as some latitude must be given to 

 birds from that part of the world, may be ranked as one ; otherwise, 

 the curvature of the bill exceeds that of most individuals of this 

 Genus ; perhaps belonging to the Honey-eaters '? 



168.— BUFF-COLOURED THRUSH. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill bent, stout, three quarters of an 

 inch long, yellow ; general colour of the plumage cinereous buff- 

 colour ; head, neck, and breast, paler ; back, wings, and tail, 

 inclining to pale brown ; tail four inches long, cuneiform, but the 

 feathers of it, and the quills, darker than the rest of the bird; base of 

 the tail paler ; legs stout, yellow, claws short, and seem calculated 

 for scratching in the ground ; the wings reach just to the base of the 

 tail. — Inhabits New South Wales. 



169— PUNCTATED THRUSH. 



Turdus punctatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xliv. 



Punctated Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 187. Zool. N. Holl. p. 25. No. ix. Shaw's 

 Zool. x. 202. 



LENGTH nearly ten inches. Bill notched, not very stout, 

 black ; general colour of the plumage brown, inclining to olive, the 

 feathers marked down the middle with a darker streak ; breast ash- 

 colour; belly pale rufous buff, with a black mark near the end of 



