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INSECTIVOR^. 



Family TURDIDJE. 



Genus Petrocincla. (Vigors.] 



Generic Characters. — Beak elongated arid sub-cylindrical, the 

 edges of inferior mandible notched towards the point, to 

 correspond with the curve of the upper mandible. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, ovoid, and partly closed by a membrane; tarsi 

 of medium length; wings passing the middle of the tail; first 

 quill feather very short, the third the longest, the second a 

 little shorter than the third. Tail feathers equal at the end. 



BLUE THRUSH. 



Petrocincla cyanea. 



Petrocincla cyanea, Gould. Degland. 



" cyana, Keyserling and Blasius. 



Tardus cyaneus, Linnjjus. Gmelin. Latham. 



" " Meyek and Wolff. Temminck. 



" " Vieillot. Schinz. Schlegel. 



" sol/tarius, (female,) 



and Manillensis, (young,) Latham; Index, p. 345. 



Merula cccrulea, Bkisson. 



Petrocossyphus cyaneus, Boie. Bonapakte. 



" Loche; Cat. des Oiseaux 

 Observes en Algeria. 



Merle de Roche Men. Of the French. 



Plane Sleindrossel, Of the Germans. 



