206 naumann's thrush. 



with fleshy red appearing through; in old birds dark 

 or brownish flesh-colour; middle-sized curved claws 

 dark brown, and blackish at the points. Tarsus one 

 inch and a quarter; middle toe and claw one inch one 

 line; hinder toe with claw three quarters of an inch. 



Plumage. Old male. — This is a handsome bird. Upper 

 plumage olive grey, darkest on the top of the head 

 and wing feathers, and on the back and lesser wing 

 coverts mixed with rusty red; upper tail coverts and 

 sides of the neck rusty red, with olive grey points; a 

 broad stripe from the base of the beak over the eye 

 to the neck; foremost half of cheeks and throat rusty 

 reddish white; angle of mouth and hinder part of cheeks 

 dark grey; a small border on both sides of the lower 

 mandible down to the sides of the neck, and as far as 

 the breast covered with small nearly round dark grey 

 spots; feathers on the breast, on the flanks, and under 

 tail coverts rusty red with whitish grey borders, which 

 are broader on the sides, and where the rusty red runs 

 into arrow-shaped spots; middle of the breast and body 

 underneath white, with small rusty red longish spots, 

 which are however almost entirely covered by the large 

 white ends of the feathers. The tail is rusty red; the 

 middle feathers and the outer borders of the remaining 

 feathers from the point half way upwards brown, which 

 makes the end of the closed tail of that colour; the 

 under wing coverts rusty red." 



This description might have been taken from Mr. 

 Gould's skin, a figure of which Dr. Sclater has given 

 in the "Ibis," vol. iv, and is the same bird as that 

 shot by Mr. Swinhoe near Shangae, and called by him 

 the "B-ed-tailed Fieldfare." But it is not a description 

 of either of the figures in Naumann's plate, which he 

 now goes on to describe as follows: — 



