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INSECTIVOILE. 



Family TURDIDJE. 



Genus Turdus. 



NAUMANN'S THEUSH. 



Turdus Naumannii. 



Tardus Naumannii, Temminck; Man., 1820. 



Bonaparte. Schinz. 



" Keyserling and Blasius. 



" schlegel. 



fuscatus, Pallas; Zoogr., 1, p. 451. 



" Gould ; Birds of Asia. 



eunomus, Temminck; Fauna Japonica. 



" Naumann. 



Merle Naumann, Of the French. 



Naumann s Drossel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage ash-coloured red above; in the 

 adult marked below with large red spots fringed with white, and 

 in the young with triangular spots of blackish brown. Length 

 ten inches. 



This is said to be one of the Asiatic Thrushes dis- 

 covered and designated by Pallas Turdus fuscatus. 

 Temminck described it in his "Manual" of 1820 as T. 

 Naumannii, after the distinguished ornithologist of that 

 name. Mr. Gould, in his "Birds of Europe," adopts 



