THICK-BILLED THRUSH. 



about ten inches in length : the prevailing colour 

 of its plumage is a pale brown, inclining to cine- 

 reous below : the breast is mottled with ash- 

 colour and brown: the wings hardly reach to the 

 rump : the tail is wedged, and rather long : the 

 beak and legs are dusky : irides blueish. Inhabits 

 New South Wales. 



THICK-BILLED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus crassirostris.) 



Tu. rufo-fuscis subtus cinereus, pennis longitudinaliter medio 

 striatis, redricibus lateralihus obscure riifis. 



Red-brown Thrush, beneath cinereous, with the feathers longitu- 

 dinally striated, and the lateral tail-feathers obscure red. 



Turdus crassirostris. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 815. — Lath. Ind, 

 Orn. 1. 335. 30. 



Thick-billed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 34. 30. t. 47- 



Figured by Dr. Latham, and by him described 

 as follows : " Size of the Missel Thrush : length 

 nine inches : beak three quarters of an inch ; very 

 stout for the genus, and notched near the tip ; the 

 colour blackish ; at the base a few bristles : irides 

 pearl-coloured : the upper parts of the plumage 

 are rufous brown : sides of the head and all the 

 under parts dusky brown, verging to ash-colour 

 about the neck : each feather marked down the 

 shaft with a very pale rufous streak as far as the 

 breast, and from thence with a white one: the 

 quills and two middle tail-feathers are darker 

 than the back j the rest of the feathers like those 



