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differs im the colours of the plumage, is very like the 
one we have figured under the name of Lzos Vail- 
lant in the “Pl. Color.,” or the Merle cul-jaune du 
Cap of Buffon, “Pl. Enl.,” 317, which is the Brunoir 
of Vaillant, “Ois. d’ Afr.,”’ pl. 106, f.1. It resembles 
also m all these characters many of the species of the 
same genus scattered over the Isles of the Asiatic 
Archipelago.” 
The adult male and female have the top of the 
head, cheeks, and throat, dull brown; nape, mantle, 
back, and rump, a dull earthy brown; the whole of 
the wing same colour, but rather more shining. Chest 
and sides a clear brown; middle of the belly whitish 
brown; abdomen and upper tail coverts dull white; 
tail unicolorous blackish brown; beak and feet black. 
With this bird I complete the description of the 
Thrushes and their allies. The two Water Ouzels 
admitted by some authors, namely, Cinclus Pallas 
and C. melanogaster, would, accordmg to the arrange- 
ment of Temminck, follow next; but there is, I think, 
no doubt that the last is a variety of C. aquaticus, a 
well-known British bird, while the former is only an 
inhabitant of Siberia, and that proof of its having been 
found in the Crimea, as stated by Temminck, is 
wanting. ‘They are excluded by Schlegel and Degland, 
and therefore I shall follow their example. 
I prince here my first volume to a close, a number 
or so sooner than I intended, to avoid breaking in 
_upon the next group, the Sylviade, which will occupy 
the first six or seven numbers of Volume II. In 
dealing with this family, I shall follow the arrangement 
