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228.— WHITE-EARED THRUSH. 



Turdus auritus, Lid. Orn.i. 360. Gin. Lin. i. 827. 



Pipra leucotis, Gm. Lin. i. 1003. 



Le Fourmilier a oreilles blanches, Buf.'w. 477. PI. enl. 822. Tern. Man.Ed.il. Anal. 



p. Iviii. 

 White-eared Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. 527. 

 Whitceared Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 84. Shaic's Zool. x. 310. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. The bill rather stout, 

 almost three quarters of an inch long, and dusky; top of the head 

 rufous brown, communicating with a collar of the same, half an inch 

 broad, on the breast ; chin and throat black ; from behind the eye 

 a glossy white streak, composed of elongated feathers, and broader 

 than the rest, descends on each side of the neck ; lower part of the 

 neck, back, wings, and tail mixed rufous and olive-brown ; belly, 

 thighs, and vent white ; legs dusky ; tail one inch and a quarter 

 long, and the wings reach to the end of it. 



The female has the head and upper parts like the male; from the 

 gape, through the eye, a greenish band, under the white ear feathers ; 

 chin and throat white; on the breast a rufous band, broader than in 

 the male, but the rest of the under parts are the same. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and has the same manners as the whole race 

 of Ant-Eaters ; so called, from chiefly feeding on those insects. 



229— RUEOUS-NAPED THRUSH. 



Turdus Colma, Ind. Orn. i. 360. Gm. Lin. i. 827. Buf. iv. 475. PI. enl. 703. 



Fourmilier, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Iviii. 



Rufous-naped Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 85. Shaw's Zool. x. 291. 



LENGTH near seven inches. Bill blackish ; the plumage above 

 rufous-brown, with a rufous collar at the back part of the neck ; 

 just behind the hindhead, at the base of the nostrils, a white spot ; 



