170 THRUSH. 



above rufous brown, the feathers margined with rufous ; the tail very 

 short, not one inch in length, wholly rufous; on the middle of the 

 back a patch of black ; wings black, most of the coverts tipped with 

 rufous yellow ; bastard wing white ; some of the lesser quills have 

 brown ends, and the outer edges of others are white ; chin, throat, 

 and breast, black, wholly surrounded by a mixture of black and 

 white from the nostrils, passing all round on each side of the neck, 

 to the breast, taking in the eye, under which it is broader ; belly, 

 thighs, and vent, ash-colour; legs bluish. 



This, too, is found with the others ; said to have a tremulous 

 note, ending in a short cry ; the nest is made of moss ; the eggs 

 brown, the size of those of a Sparrow, marked with spots of a 

 deeper colour at the larger end ; is a lively species, but seldom flies 

 to any distance ; often seen running up trees, as the Woodpecker, 

 supporting itself by the tail ; the chief food said to be ants ; these 

 birds are subject to much variety: in some specimens the chin and 

 throat are rufous, bounded with black, instead of being wholly black; 

 the end of the tail black ; and a bed of white between the shoulders : 

 in others, the middle of the chin, and throat nearly white ; in all 

 of them the belly and vent are cinereous, and in a few the thighs 

 are rufous brown. 



233.— KING THRUSH. 



Turdus grallarius, Ind. Orn. i. 361. 



Corvus grallarius, Shaw's Zool. vii. 386. t. 49. 



Turdus Rex, G?n. Lin. i. 828. 



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



Roi des Foufmiliers, Buf. iv. 450. PL enl. 702. 



King Thrush, Gen. Si/n. iii. 89. 



THIS is as large in the body as a Missel Thrush, yet from the 

 shortness of the tail measures only seven inches and a half in length. 

 The bill is brown, bent at the point, and so stout, that were it not for 

 the defect of the nostrils being covered with reflected bristles, it might 



