202 BLUE THRUSH. 
bars of brown edged with white on the chest and ab- 
domen; beak and tarsi black. 
The adult female has the whole upper parts bluish 
brown, with the feathers bordered with ash-colour. 
Wings and tail blackish brown, each feather edged 
with bluish ash; on the crop and neck large reddish 
spots; the other under parts streaked and variegated 
with a bluish tint, ash-colour, or brown. 
The young have the upper and under parts of the 
body of an ashy brown, sprinkled with small whitish 
spots; the back and neck tinted with a bluish hue; 
wings and tail blackish brown. 
After the first moult and when a year old, according 
to Degland, the males have a plumage of a less vivid 
blue, with black and bluish narrow crescents placed 
irregularly on the inferior parts of the body; sometimes 
also some are found on the upper parts, but they are 
less apparent, and have a reddish tint. 
Figured by Buffon, Pl. enl., 250, as Merle solitaire 
femelle d’Italie, and as Solitaire de Manille, Pl. enl., 
564, f. 2, and as Le Merle Bleu, p. 350, t. 24; 
Edwards, pl. 18; Temminck and Laugier, Atlas; 
Vieilott, Faun. France, pl. 70 and 71; Roux, Ornith. 
Proy., pl. 173 and 174, (male and female;) Gould, B. 
of E.; Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pl. 21. 
