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colour of the plumage pale brown, inclining to ash-colour beneath ; 

 breast obscurely marked with narrow waves ; chin, and down the 

 middle of the belly, dusky white ; tail cuneiform, pretty long, but 

 the wings remarkably short, reaching scarcely to the rump. 



Inhabits New South Wales, chiefly seen on the ground, or at 

 most making very short flights, being unable to accomplish long 

 ones, from the smallness of the wings. 



A specimen in the collection of Lord Stanley answered in every 

 respect, but was much smaller, being only seven inches in length : 

 this seemed to arise chiefly from the tail, which measured only three 

 inches. 



173— MURINE THRUSH. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill three quarters 

 of an inch, strong, with a slight notch at the point, colour black ; at 

 the base of the upper mandible four stout hairs, or bristles, curving 

 inwards on the under mandible ; plumage in general mouse-colour, 

 the head darker, more inclined to brown, and the feathers of the 

 crown somewhat elongated ; beneath, from the breast to vent, white ; 

 tail three inches long, rounded, deep brown, the feathers rather paler 

 at the end : the wings reach to about the middle ; legs stout, black. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



174— SPOTTED-SHOULDERED THRUSH. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill and legs black ; plumage in general 

 dusky black ; wing coverts marked with a white spot at the tips ; 

 over the eye a streak of the same ; down the middle of the belly a 

 broad white streak ; quills and tail black ; all but the two middle 

 feathers of the latter white at the tips, and the exterior white on the 

 middle of the outer web. 



