BROWN-CROWNED THRUSH. 



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Length ten inches : beak and legs brown: head, 

 hind parts of the neck, and back, blueish black : 

 wings and tail brown : chin and all the under parts 

 of the body white : feeds on insects. Called Bana- 

 will-will in New South Wales. 



brown-crowned thrush. 



(Tardus tenebrosus.) 



Tu. dorso alis gulaque nigris, corpore subtus albido, *oertice Jusco* 

 Tlirush with the back, wings, and tail, black ; the body beneath 



whitish ; the crown brown. 

 Tardus tenebrosus. Lath, Ind. Orn. Sup. xlii, \2, 

 Brown-erowned Thrush. Lath, Syn, Sup, II, 184. 21. 



Not uncommon at Port Jackson, in New South 

 Wales : length about six inches : beak pale blue : 

 crown of the head and sides of the body brown : 

 back and wings black ; the edges of the quills 

 white : chin black j all the rest of the under parts 

 white : legs black. 



