YELLOW-FRONTED THRUSH. 



band: tlie thighs are white on the inside, and 

 deep blue without. 



YELLOW-FRONTED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Mgilabaricus. ) 



Tu, viridis nitens, fronle fiaxidy gutture nigro, maxilla inferiore 

 striga ccerulea, tectricibus alarum cccrulescentibiis. 



Shining-green Thrush, with a yellow forehead, black throat, a 

 blue stripe beneath the under mandible, and blueish wing- 

 coverts. 



Turdus malabaricus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 837. — Lath, Lid. Orn, 

 1. 349. 77- 



Le petit Merle de la cote de Malabar, Sonner. Voy, Ind, 2. 

 Yellow-fronted Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn, 3. 60. 69. 



The beak of this bird is black : irides yellow : 

 the prevailing colour of the plumage is of a fine 

 glossy green : the wing-coverts are of a change- 

 able light blue : the forehead yellow : the throat 

 black : at the lower mandible of the beak is a 

 streak of ultramarine : legs black: female smaller: 

 the general colour of her plumage green, inclining 

 to yellow on the belly : the throa4: light bliie. In- 

 habits the Malabar coast. 



