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MADAGASCAR THRUSH. 



and primary wing quills, and rump, margined with 

 pale chesnut: tail rounded at the tip, and deep 

 cinereous ; its coverts pale chesnut : the legs are 

 black. 



MADAGASCAR THRUSH. 



(Turdus madagascariensis.) 



Tu. fuscus^ suhtus alhus, pectore lateribusque riifescentibus, ma" 

 cula alarum rufo-aurea, rectricibus duobus intermediis latero' 

 liumque marginibus viridi-auratis , extimis margine exteriore 

 albis. 



Brown Thrush, beneath white, with the breast and sides reddish; 

 a reddish gold spot on the wings; the two middle tail-fea- 

 thers, and the edges of the outer ones, green gold ; the 

 outermost one with the exterior margin white. 



Turdus madagascariensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 823. — Lath. 

 Ind, Orn. 1 . 352. 94. 



Merula madagascariensis, Briss. 2: 274. 33. t. 25.y. 1. 



Le Tauombe. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 3QQ.—Buff. PI, EnL 

 557. f. 1. 



Madagascar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3, 68. S6. 



Beak black : head, neck, back, and scapulars, 

 brown: quills dusky; from the second to the 

 sixth part white, part violet, on the outer webs : 

 the secondaries black, mixed with green and 

 violet, and some of the inner ones glossed with 

 gilded rufous : rump green brown : breast and 

 sides rufous brown: belly, thighs, and vent, white: 

 the two middle tail-feathers green gold ; the rest 

 the same, with the inner margins dusky: the out- 

 most feathers white on the outer edge ; the two 



