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beneath white, marbled with dusky on the breast ; tail sixteen lines 

 long', even at the end ; legs lead-colour, one inch and a half long. 



The female is larger than the male, and both sexes apt to vary. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and is esteemed as good food; has a remark- 

 able cry, which it makes morning and evening, very loud and 

 piercing, like the alarum of a clock, for about half an hour each 

 time; this might be termed the call of love, which, in the colder 

 climates, is observed in the breeding season ; but, as Buffon observes, 

 will not be confined to times or seasons in the warmer regions, being 

 less fixed than in the colder ones, whence their having this note at 

 all times of the year is accounted for. 



231— SPECKLED THRUSH. 



Turdus lineatus, Ind. Orn.i. 361. Gm. Lin,\. 828. 



Le petit Befroi, Biif. iv. 472. 



Fourmilier giivele de Cayenne, PL enl. 82-3. 1. 



Speckled Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 87. Shaiv's Zool. x. 307. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill brown ; plumage above 

 olive brown ; rump, belly, and vent the same, but paler ; chin and 

 throat white ; breast and belly the same, speckled with numerous 

 brown spots ; side of the neck, from the eye to the wing, dashed 

 with slender white lines, and some of the wing coverts spotted with 

 pale rufous buff; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, with the last: Buffon seems to think them 

 Varieties, but this has a bill more slender, and the tail longer. 



232.— ANT THRUSH. 



Turdus formicivorus, Ind. Orn. i. 361. Gm. Lin. i. 828. 

 Le Palikour, ou Fourmilier, Buf. iv. 473. PL enl. 700. 1. 

 Ant Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 87. Shaw's Zool. x. 308. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill one inch long, black, a trifle bent 

 at the tip ; irides reddish, and the eye placed in a blue skin ; plumage 



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