BLACK-BREASTED THRUSH. 



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per part of the head, neck, and back, olive brown; 

 the latter with a white spot in the middle : wing- 

 coverts sprinkled with white spots : wings deep 

 ash-coloured brown : under parts of the body cine- 

 reous : tail blackish: legs pale yellow: female 

 without the white spot on the back : the colours 

 of the upper parts of the body paler than in the 

 male : the chin white: the under parts of the body 

 and tips of the wing-coverts with a rufous tinge : 

 the vent and under tail-coverts greyish ash-co- 

 lour. This species is extremely numerous in the 

 thick woods of Guiana : they feed on ants, are 

 very active, and have only a quavering note, with- 

 out any resemblance to a song. 



BLACK-BREASTED THRUSH. 



(Tardus cinnamomeus.) 



Tu. testaceO'Tuber, collo inferiore nigro albo marginato, tectrici- 

 bus alarum nigris, mhioribus albo mediis majoribusque rufo 

 terminafis. 



Testaceous-red Thrush, with the neck beneath black, margined 

 with white ; the wing-coverts black, the lesser ones tipped 

 with white, and the greater and middle ones with rufous. 



Turdus cinnamomeus. G^nel. St/st. Nat, 1. S25.-^Lalh. Ind. 

 Orn. 1. 358. 114. 



Le Merle ^ cravate de Cayenne. Biif. Hist, Nat, Ois, 3. 392.— 

 Buff. PL Enl. 560./. 2, 



Black-breasted Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3, 70. 107. 



Less than Turdus iliacus: the beak and legs 

 black : the chin, sides of the head, cheeks, throat, 



