138 THRUSH. 



those marks near the end, but paler ; tail dusky ash-colour ; all the 

 under parts are rusty orange, with a black band across the breast ; 

 legs yellow, 



The female is dusky ash-colour above ; throat and chin the same, 

 but paler, a little mixed with white ; breast dull red, growing nearly 

 white towards the vent, but without the black band of the male. 



Inhabits the woods at George's Sound. — Sir Joseph Banks. This 

 is probably the Blackbird of Port des Francois, mentioned in La 

 Peronse's Voy. round the World. ,* 



182.— KAMTSCHATKAN THRUSH.— Pl. lxxxiii. 



Turdus Calliope, Ind. Orn. i. 331. 



Motacilla Calliope, Pall. Trav. iii. 697. Gm. Lin. i. 977. Nat. Misc. pl. 168. 

 Turdus Camtschatkensis, Gm. Lin. i. 817. 

 Accenteur, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxviii. 

 Ruby-throat Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 463. Shaw's Zool. x. 644. 



Kamtschatkan Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 28. Id. Sup. 140. pl. in frontisp. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 343. E. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill dusky, tip black ; upper parts of the 

 plumage pale brown ; between the bill and eye black, and continued 

 a little way under the eye ; beyond this an elongated whitish streak, 

 growing broader behind ; above the eye a second of the same, like 

 an eyebrow; the chin and throat of a beautiful pink-colour, margined 

 with black ; the rest of the parts beneath brownish white ; tail the 

 colour of the back, and rounded in shape ; legs long. 



Inhabits Kamtschatka ; found also in Siberia, in the willow- 

 beds, chiefly in the eastern parts ; first met with in the neighbourhood 

 of the Rivers Jenisei and Lena ; seen mostly on the tops of trees. Is 

 said to be an excellent songster, and, like the Nightingale, frequently 

 sings in the middle of the night. 



* See Stockdale's Edit. p. 151. 



