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and tail dark ash-colour; wing coverts barred with buff; quills 

 brown ; under parts of the body dull rufous ; tail two inches and a 

 half long, shape somewhat cuneiform ; legs brown. 

 Supposed to have come from Cayenne. 



206— CHECK-BREASTED THRUSH. 



LENGTH six inches at least ; breadth ten inches and a half. 

 Bill dusky, the base of the under mandible pale ; plumage above 

 pale brown, beneath white ; from the chin an irregular mixed black 

 streak diverges on each side, almost to the wing, accompanied above 

 with one of a paler brown ; throat, breast, and sides, marked with 

 square black spots, giving the appearance of a chequer-board ; on 

 the top of the head a few streaks of darker brown ; legs dirty pale 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Georgia, in America, but is a rare species. It has 

 been met with two or three times, frequenting the logs of wood, and 

 large trees, cut down in a rice field on Briar Creek, in the winter 

 season ; though no where known to be common. 



207— WHITE-SHOULDERED THRUSH. 



LENGTH six inches and half. Bill black ; general make of the 

 bird stout; the plumage wholly black with a slight gloss ; at the 

 beginning of the back, between the shoulders, a large patch of white 

 feathers with black ends, giving a mixed appearance ; tail two 

 inches and a half long, rounded at the end; legs stout, black. 



Inhabits Africa. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



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