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BLUE THRUSH. 



(Turdus cyanus.). 



Tu. pennis margine cinereo-ccerideis, ore palpehrisque luteus. 

 Thrush with the margins of the feathers of a grey blue; the 



mouth and eye-lids yellow. 

 Turdus cyanus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 296. 24. — Gmel. Syst, Nat, 



1. 834.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 344. 60. 

 Merula caerulea. Briss. 2. 282. 37. 

 Le Merle bleu. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 355. 24. 

 Le Merle solitaire. Buff. PI. Enl. 250. female. 

 Solitary Sparrow. Edwards. 18. male. 



Blue Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 5)7. 53. — Lath, Syn» Sup. 142. 



The Blue Thrush is rather smaller than the 

 Blackbird : length eight inches : beak blackish : 

 the inside of the mouth and eyelids orange : the 

 irides dull hazel: the entire plumage blue; the 

 feathers with white tips, and a brown band near 

 the tips: quills and tail dusky, edged with greyish 

 white: legs dusky: female more inclined to ash- 

 colour, and transversely waved with that colour 

 and black on the under parts. 



Found in the Mediterranean, and amongst the 

 islands in the Grecian Archipelago, 



