crow. 65 



70 —BLUE-TAILED CROW. 



Turdus cyanurus, Ind. Orn. i. 361. G;». Lin. i. SIS. 



Corvus cyanurus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 384. pi. 47. 



L'Azuriu, Buf. iii. 410. Id. iv. 470. 



Merle de la Guiane, PL enl. 355. 



Pitta, Breve, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lvii. 



Blue-tailed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 8S. Nat. Misc. pi. 617. 



LARGER than a Blackbird. Length eight inches and a half. 

 Bill one inch, brown ; top of the head to the nape black ; from the 

 nostrils over the eye, an orange band, meeting at the neck behind ; 

 from the gape springs a broad stripe of black, including the eye, 

 and passing on each side of the neck to the back; scapulars and 

 adjoining wing coverts reddish brown ; but those next the outer parts 

 and quills are black, except the greater wing coverts, which have 

 white tips, forming an oblique indented band on the wing ; tail only 

 two inches and a half long, cuneiform, blue ; all the under parts of 

 the body, from the breast, transversely striped alternate yellow and 

 blue; legs brown. 



Inhabits Guiana. 



A. — This variety differs a little from the former ; the crown is 

 black ; over the eye a yellow streak, changing at the back part into 

 orange ; through the eye abroad black band ; beneath this, from the 

 chin, a broad yellow one passing backwards on the sides of the neck ; 

 upper parts of the body rufous brown ; all beneath from the throat 

 pale blue, nearly white ; on the sides of the breast several curved 

 orange lines ; wings black ; on the outer edge, near the bend, a 

 patch of white, and a few of the second quills have the ends white ; 

 tail as in the other, blue ; legs long, brown. 



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