ASH-RUMPED THRUSPl. 



is in length eight inches : the beak is black : the 

 entire plumage on the upper parts of the body is 

 black, of which colour the legs are : all the under 

 parts are white. The White-browed Thrush of 

 Latham appears to be the opposite sex of this 

 bird, from which it only differs in having the eye- 

 brow, and a spot on the lower wing- coverts, white. 



ASH-RUMPED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Orientaiis.) 



Tu. niger, subtus albus, uropygio cinereo, fascia per oculos nigra, 



i^ectricibus 7iigris, tribus extimis apice albis. 

 Black Thrush, beneath white, with the rump ash-coloured; 



stripe through the eyes black; tail-feathers black, the three 



outer ones with white tips. 

 Turdus orientaiis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 821. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 



1. 355. 104. 

 Merula indica. Briss. 3. 248. \g, t, 31.j^ 3. 

 Merle des Indes. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. Sgy.Suff. PL Enl, 



<273.f. 2. 



Ash-rumped Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 74.97. 



This Thrush is in length six inches and a half ; 

 the beak, upper parts of the head and body, streak 

 from the beak through the eyes, and the neck, 

 black : the lower parts of the back and rump ci- 

 nereous: wing-coverts dusky chesnut 5 the greater 

 ones edged with white : quills dusky ; the prima- 

 ries with white bars to their inner webs, and the 



