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ROSE-COLOURED THRUSH. 



dusky black, a little bent at the tip : the head, 

 neck, upper parts of the back, lesser wing-coverts, 

 prime and second quills, and two middle tail-fea- 

 thers, black : the under parts of the body, from 

 the throat, the lower part of the back, the middle 

 wing-coverts, and the rest of the tail-feathers, a 

 rich deep scarlet: there are also three spots of 

 the same near the tips of three of the second 

 quills : the tail is rounded in shape : the legs 

 black. Inhabits India." 



ROSE-COLOURED THRUSH. 



(Turdus roseus.) 



Tu. subincarnatus, capite alis caudaque nigris, occipite cristato. 

 Flesh-coloured Thrush, with the head, wings, and tail, black ; 



hind head crested. 

 Turdus roseus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 294. 15. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



219.— -Gme/. Si/sf. Nat. 1. Qig.^Lath. Ind, Orn, 1. 344. 69. 

 Turdus Seleucis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 837. 

 Merula rosea. Briss. 2. 250. 20. 



Merle couleur de rose. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 3. 348. 22. — 

 Buff. PI. EnL 251. 



Rose-coloured Thrush. Pen. Brit. Zool. Jpp. 5. t. 5. — Pen. 

 Arct. Zool. 2. 344. g. — Lemn, Brit. Birds. 2. 64. — Edvoards, 

 1. 20. — Bemck.Brit. Birds. 1. 91. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 50. — 

 Lath. Syn, Sup. 142. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 2.— Mont. Sup. — 

 Shatv. Nat. Misc. 6. 231. 



This elegant species of Thrush is rather less 

 than the Blackbird: length near eight inches: 



