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YELLOW-BELLIED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus mellinus.) 



Tv.Jusco-virescenSj subtus albus, abdomine JlavOf superciliis albis, 



capite, cerviceque nigris. 

 Brown-green Thrush, beneath white, with the abdomen yellow; 



supercilia white ; head and neck black. 

 Turdus mellinus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup, xliv, 22. 

 Yellow-bellied Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. IL 187. 32. 



This J according to Dr. Latham, is the size of 

 the Missel Thrush : its beak is pale red : the 

 head, hind part of the neck, and sides of the 

 breast, dusky black : back and wing-coverts green- 

 ish brown : breast and belly olive yellow : J^hin, 

 fore-part of the neck, and vent, white : quills olive 

 brown, the lesser ones barred with black : tail 

 olive above and pale beneath : at the back of the 

 neck are transverse black marks, and between that 

 and the sides of the breast a few sagittal marks : 

 legs pale red. Inhabits New South Wales, ap- 

 pearing in the spring and departing in the au- 

 tumn." 



