MERULID^. 



195 



Sp. 3. Py. leucopterus. Te77i77t. Man. d'Om. 2 Edit. i. 121. 



Py. niger remigibus interne albis. 



Black Pyrrhocorax with the quills white within. 



Inhabits New Holland. Length five inches and 

 a half : entirely black, except the inner part of the 

 greater wing-feathers, which are white: the tail is 

 much longer than the wings, and greatly rounded : 

 the beak and legs are also black. 



GENUS XCVI.— TURDUS Auctorum. THRUSH. 



nostrum latius quam altum, 

 basi glabrum, subrobus- 

 tum, supra convexum, 

 apice compressum, subde- 

 flexum ; mandihula supe- 

 rior paulo arcuata, inferior 

 recta. 



Rictus ciliatus. 



Beak broader than high, the 

 base bald, rather robust, 

 convex above, the tip 

 compressed, slightly de- 

 flexed ; the upper mandible 

 a little arcuated, the lower 

 straight. 



Gape ciliated. 



This genus requires considerable investigation, as 

 it at present embraces several very dissimilar birds, 

 whose habits and economy are much unlike ; but, as 

 before observed, my object being merely the arrange- 

 ment of the published genera according to the natural 

 affinities, I have included under the generic term 

 Turdus, such birds as are so placed by Cuvier and 

 other modern ornithologists, leaving it to those per- 

 sons who have more leisure and better opportunities 

 of studying collections than myself, to dispose of the 

 species agreeably to their natural relationship. It may, 

 however, be observed, that the first nine species are 

 true Thrushes, are more or less spbtted in their plu- 



