THRUSH. 161 



B.— White-chinned Thrush, Shaio's Zool. x. 229. 



M. Fermin also mentions a bird of Surinam,* which seems a 

 further Variety. The bill and legs in this are both orange, and the 

 colour of the male black ; the bill of the female dusky. 



Said to be common : feeds on fruits and insects, and makes a nest 

 of moss, small twigs, and roots, firmly bound together. 



216.— THILI THRUSH. 



Turdus Thilius, Molin. Chil. 221. Id. (Fr. ed.) 230. 

 Merula Tilli, Feuill. Journ. des Obs. (1725) 126 ? 



THIS bird is said by Molina to be in shape like a Thrush ; the 

 male wholly black, except a spot of yellow under the wings ; tail 

 cuneiform. The female is probably grey, or blue grey, as it is likened 

 to the Red-legged Species, on supposition that the two form only 

 different sexes of one and the same. 



This inhabits every part of Chili in South America, where it is 

 called Thili or Chili :f it makes the nest of twigs by the river side, 

 mixed with mud, on trees growing near the borders, and lays four 

 eggs ; the song is soft and sonorous, but the bird does not bear 

 confinement in a cage. It appears to be a numerous species, pro- 

 bably owing to the flesh being disagreeable to the smell, as well as 

 unsavoury to the palate, and therefore not sought after. 



217.— FERRUGINOUS THRUSH. 



Turdus rufus, Ind. Orn. i. 338. Lin. i. 293. Gm. Lin. i. 812. Klein, 69. 19. Vie'tll. 



Am. ii. p. 4. pi. 59. 

 Turdus Carolinensis, Bris. ii. 223. Id. 8vo. i. 220. 



* Ferm. Surin. ii. 182. Gen. Syn. iii. 45. 47. B. 



f The name of the country, Chili, supposed to have originated from the great number 

 of these birds being found there. 



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