GLOSSY THRUSH. Q47 



Le Merle vert d' Angola. Buff. PI. Enl. sGL^-^Buff, Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 3. 372. 

 Blue and green Daw. Edwards. 320. 

 Shining Thrush. Lath. Gen» Syn. 3. 56. 60. A, 



This most splendid bird is generally admitted 

 to be distinct from the Shining Thrush, than which 

 it is less abundant. It inhabits the same places 

 as that species : the upper parts of the head, neck, 

 body, and tail, are of a shining olive green, with a 

 tinge of blue on the back : wings sprinkled with 

 dark black spots : tlu'oat blue : fore-part of the 

 neck blue green : breast, belly, thighs, and feathers 

 covering the ears, violet : vent olive yellow : legs 

 black. 



GLOSSY THRUSH. 

 (Turdus ffineus.) 



TtJ. mridis nttens, capite nigro-cBneo^ ahdomine cupreOf uropygio 

 rectricibusque duahus intermediis purpiireo sphvdejitihiis, cauda 

 longissima cuneiformi. 



Shining green Thrush, with the head of a brassy black; abdo- 

 men coppery ; ramp and two middle tail-feathers most splen- 

 did purple ; tail long and wedge-shaped, 



Turdus seneus. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 8iS,— Lath, Ind. Orn. 1. 



347. 6;. 



Merula viridis longicauda senega! ensis, Briss. 2. 313. 54. ^. 31. 

 /. 1. 



Merle h longue queue du Senegal. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 3. 369. 



^Buff. PI. EnL 220. 

 Glossy Thrush. Lath. Gm. Syn. 3. 51. 61. 



