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LONG-BILLED THRUSH. 



yellow olive : middle of the former whitish ; tail 

 brown, with two transverse darker bands. In» 

 habits the Isle of Bourbon. 



LONG-BILLED THRUSH. 



(Turdus longirostris.) 



Tu.JuscO'VircscenSf suhtus fiavus, superciliis rectricibu&que extus 

 Jlavescentibus. 



Greenish-brown Thrush, beneath yellow ; supercilia and edges 



of the tail-feathers yellowish. 

 Turdus longirostris. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 823. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 



1.352.92. 



Long-billed Thrush. Lath, Gen. Syn, 3. 67. 84. 



The beak of this species is very long in pro- 

 portion to the size of the bird, being above an 

 inch and a half in length, and of a brownish 

 jftesh-colour : the feathers on the head are short 

 and pointed : the supercilia are pale yellowish : 

 the tipper parts of the body are pale olive brown : 

 the wing-coverts and quills margined with pale 

 yellow: the rump yellowish: all the under parts 

 of the body pale yellow: the tail rounded; the 

 two middle feathers brown, with pale tips ; the 

 others dusky yellow, with pale shafts : legs dusky 

 flesh-colour : some specimens vary in having more 

 pale buff on the wing-coverts, and in being mot- 

 tled with dusky and buff. It inhabits the islands 

 of Eimeo and New York. 



