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CAPE THRUSH. 

 (Tardus cafer.) 



Tu. nigricans subcristatus, capite nigro-violaceOf uropygio mntre- 



que albis, crisso rubro. 

 Dusky subcrested Thrush, with a violet black head, white 



rump and belly, and red vent, 

 Turdus cafer, Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 295. l6.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



820. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 354. QQ. 

 Merula cristata Capitis Bonse Spei. Briss. 2. 257. 23. t. 20. J". 2. 

 Merle huppe du Cap de Bonne Espcrance. Buffi Hist, Nat, 



Ois. 3. 39].— PL Enl. 563./. 1. 

 Cape Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 72. 92. 



The Cape Thrush is in length eight inches : its 

 beak and legs are blackish : head crested and 

 black, with a tinge of violet : the upper parts of 

 the plumage brown ; the feathers edged with 

 greyish : the quills brown, edged with grey : the 

 fore-part of the neck and breast violet-coloured 

 brown : abdomen brown, the feathers with grey 

 edges : thighs, rump, and lower part of the abdo- 

 men, white : vent and under tail-coverts red : tail 

 wedge-shaped, and brown, with the tip white : 

 sometimes found with the upper parts of the body 

 brownish ash-colour, streaked with pale brown : 

 beneath grey white : the vent crimson : in other 

 respects similar. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



