ROCK THRUSH. ^66 



secondaries to both : the sides of the head and all 

 the under parts white: thighs grey: the tail black; 

 the three outer feathers with white tips: legs 

 dusky. Inhabits the East Indies. 



ROCK THRUSH. 

 (Turdus infaustus.) 



Tu. nigricante Jksco rufcscenteque mrius, cainte cinereo rufes- 



cente maculato, rectricibus later alihus riifis. 

 Thrush varied with dusky, brown, and reddish, with the head 



spotted with cinereous red, and the lateral tail-feathers rufous. 

 Turdus infaustus. Lath, Tnd.Orn. 1. 335. 32. 

 Lanius infaustus. Gmel. S^st. Nat, J. 310. 

 Turdus saxatilis. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 833. 

 Merula sexatilis. Briss. 2. 238. 13. 

 Merle de roche. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 351. 

 Rock Crow. Pen, Arct. Zool. 2. 252./. 



Rock Shrike. Lath, Gen. Syn. 1. 176. — Shaxx), Gen. Zool, J, 302. 

 Rock Thrush. Lath. Gen, Syn, 3. 54. 57. 



This bird has a pale brown beak : the upper 

 parts of the plumage are dark brown, with many of 

 the feathers edged with ash-coloured white : chin 

 white: throat similar to the upper parts, but pale: 

 fore-part of the neck and all the under parts of the 

 ' body dirty orange colour, undulated with white and 

 brown: rump rust-coloured, and margined wirh ci- 

 nereous white : the tail-feathers dirty orange, the 

 two middle ones excepted, which are brown^ and 

 edged with that colour : legs dusky. 



