HUDSONIAN THRUSH. 



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Beak dusky, tinged with red : irides bright yel- 

 low: hind part of the neck, back, and rump, ash- 

 coloured grey ; the two latter palest : wing-coverts 

 and lesser quills copper green, glossed with violet: 

 primary and secondary quills black : wing-coverts 

 with a few white spots : head and neck white : the 

 feathers long and narrow: breast and belly similar 

 to the back : tail like the wing-coverts, with its 

 under-coverts white: legs yellow: female with 

 the head grey, and the gloss on the wings less 

 brilliant. Inhabits China. 



HUDSONIAN THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Hudsonicus.) 



Tu. cceruleO'Ci7iereus, vertice nucha teclricibus alarum uropygio- 

 que pallide-castaneo marginatis, cauda cinerea rotundata. 



Ash-coloured blue Thrush, with the crown, nape, wing-coverts, 

 and rump, margined with pale chesnut ; the tail rounded and 

 ash- coloured. 



Turdus hudsonicus. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 818. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 

 1. 362. 13\. ^Vieil, Ois, de I'Amer. Sept. 2. 17. 



Le Merle blueatre. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept, 2. 17. 



Hudsonian Thrush. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 204. — Lath. Sup, 

 143. 124. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay. Length about seven 

 inches and a half : beak black : prevailing colour 

 of the plumage deep blueish ash, with the feathers 

 of the crown of the head, the nape, wing-coverts. 



