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WHITE-BACKED THRUSH. 



Length ten inches : beak, eye lids, and irides, 

 red : head and upper parts of the body deep cine- 

 reous : quills blackish, edged with grey : throat 

 white, spotted with black : all the rest of the 

 under parts ash-coloured, but the colour towards 

 the vent verges to white : between the beak and 

 eye a spot of black : tail wedge-shaped ; the four 

 outer feathers on each side tipped with white: 

 legs red : female much smaller than the male, 

 similar in plumage, but rather duller in colour. 

 Inhabits various parts of North America, parti- 

 cularly Carolina. 



white-backed thrush. 

 (Turdus Alapi.) 



Tv.Jiiscus suhtus c 'mereus, collo injeriore pccioreque nigris, tec- 



tricibus alarum albo punctatis, dorso macula alba. 

 Brown Thrush, beneath ash-coloured, with the lower part of the 



neck and breast black, the wing-coverts spotted with white, 



and the back with a white patch. 

 Turdus Alapi. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. S26.—Lath. hid. Orn. I, 



359. 119. 



L' Alapi de Cayenne. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. AS5.—Biff. PI. 



Enl. 701./. 2. 

 White-backed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 3, 82. 112. 



A little larger than the Buff- winged Thrush : 

 length six inches: the beak dusky: the throat, 

 fore-part of the neck, and breast, black: the up- 



