BOURBON THRUSH. 



301 



Turdus ruficaudus. Gmel, Syst, Nat. 1. 81 6. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 

 1. 333. 22. 



Rufous-tailed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 30. 22. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope : length 

 seven inches : beak black : upper parts of the 

 body olive brown : quills dusky : lower parts pale 

 purplish white : upper tail-coverts rufous : tail like 

 the wings, with all but the two middle feathers 

 rufous for two-thirds of their length : legs black. 



BOURBON TPIRUSH. 

 (Turdus Borbonicus.) 



Tu. cinereo-olivaceus, suhtus Jiamcans, vertice nigro, rectricibus 



Juscisyfasciis duabus saturatioribus* 

 Cinereous-olive Thrush, beneath yellowish ; crown of the head 



black 5 tail-feathers brown, with two darker bars. 

 Turdus borbonicus. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 821. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 

 1. 355. 102. 



Merula borbonica. Briss. 2. 293. 42. t. 24*/. 3. 



Merle de I'isle de Bourbon. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois, 3. 395. 



Bourbon Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn, 3, 73. 95. 



Size of a Lark ; length about eight inches : 

 beak and legs yellowish : crown black : sides of 

 the head, neck, breast, upper parts of the body, 

 and lesser wing-coverts, greyish olive: greater 

 wing-coverts brown, varied with pale rufous : 

 quills brown, the lateral ones with reddish mar- 

 gins : sides of the belly and body, with the ventj 



