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brown, without any mixture of cinereous : and the 

 black collar round the throat is nearly obsolete. 



Sp. 2. Dr. longipes. ZooL Journ. {Swain.) ii. 152. 



Dr. supra ritfa; genis cinereis ; jugulo pectoreque nigris ; cor- 



pore albo ; tarsis longis, pallidis. 

 Ant- Thrush above rufous j with the sides of the crown cinereous; 



the throat and breast black ; body white ; tarsi elongated, pale. 



Length six inches and a quarter : beak black : 

 all the upper plumage, including the wings and tail, 

 is bright rufous ; but the crown is more dusky, and 

 is margined above the eyes and ears by a broad and 

 clear cinereous stripe ; the front is of an obscure 

 cinereous, with the shaft of the feathers black, rigid, 

 and shining : the throat and breast are deep black, 

 and this colour spreads over the sides of the head 

 and the ear-feathers ; the rest of the under plumage 

 is white, but the flanks and under tail-coverts are fer- 

 ruginous : the wings are short, feeble, and much 

 rounded : the tail also is rounded, rather short, and 

 the feathers narrow ; the colour of both is rufous. 



Sp. 3. Dr. trifasciata. Zool. Journ, (Swain.) ii. 152. 



Dr. atra, pen?iis scapularibus, interscapidaribus, tectriciumque 



Jascils duabus niveis. 

 Black Ant-Thrush, with shoulder-coverts, interscapulars, and two 

 bands on the wing-coverts, snowy. 



Length seven inches : larger than the last, but 

 the beak is rather shorter than in that bird : the 

 general colour of the entire plumage, both above 

 and beneath, is deep and uniform black : a broad 

 band of snowy-white passes over the shoulder-coverts. 



