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each feather ; over the eye a white streak, reaching backwards for an 

 inch ; chin and throat white ; on each side of the latter a ferruginous 

 streak, beginning half an inch from the gape ; lesser wing coverts 

 ash, with a black streak at the end of each, and in the middle of this 

 streak, at the very tip, a white spot; greater wing coverts, and bastard 

 wing the same, but the streaks and spots larger ; quills dusky, some 

 of the lesser ferruginous outwardly, but most of them have the edges 

 paler ; tail greatly cuneiform ; the two middle feathers ash-colour ; 

 the others black, largely marked with white at the tips, having most 

 white as they are more outward ; upper tail coverts long, reaching 

 half way on the tail ; the under ones brownish buff, with a black 

 streak down the shafts, and the tips white ; the wings reach but little 

 beyond the base of the tail ; legs pale yellowish horn-colour. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



The other sex is eleven inches long. Bill black ; chin and throat 

 the same : on each side of the last a patch of white ; plumage above 

 brown ; wing coverts black, beautifully dotted with white ; under 

 parts of the body rufous white ; middle of the belly white, and all 

 beneath marked with longitudinal, black spots ; tail cuneiform ; the 

 two middle feathers five inches long, the outer three inches and a half; 

 those in the middle brown, the others white for one-fourth from the 

 tips. — Found with the other in New-Holland, supposed to be the male. 



170 —SORDID THRUSH. 



Turdus sordidus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xliii. 



Sordid Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 186. Shaw's Zool. x. 238. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill one inch, strong, pale blue, and 

 bends downwards ; general colour of the plumage greenish ash 

 inclining to brown, paler beneath ; wings and tail black ; on the 

 outer edge a long streak of white, arising from the outer webs of the 

 second, third, and part of the fourth quills, being of that colour, for 



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