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Turdus perspicax. Shaw, Nat. Misc. pL 961. — L'Espionneur. 

 Le raill. Ois. d'Afriq. iii. pi. lOS.—Rocar Thrush A. Lath. 

 Gen. Hist. v. v. p. 33. 



Inhabits Southern Africa, and very similar to the 

 next, but differs in having the head, the whole of the 

 neck, and upper half of the back blue-grey : the 

 wing, and its coverts and quills, black, with pale mar- 

 gins : the lower half of the back and all beneath from 

 the breast rufous : the tail rather rounded and rufous, 

 except the two middle feathers, which are blackish, 

 with pale edges : the beak and legs are black, and the 

 irides chesnut. The female is paler, and the blue 

 does not extend so far down the breast. 



Sp. 35. Tu. Rocar. 



Tu. capite colloque postice plumbeo-griseis ; dorso alisque fuscis 



maculis saturatioribus; corpore subtus rectricibusque quinque 



exterioribus rujis. 

 Thrush with the head and neck behind leaden-grey 3 the back 



and wings brown, with deeper spots; the body beneath and 



five outer tail-feathers rufous. 

 Le Rocar. Le Vaill. Ois.d' Afriq. iii. 101, 102. — Rocar Thrush. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. 33. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Size of a Blackbird : 

 beak and legs black : head and hind part of the neck 

 blue-grey : back and wings brown : the feathers darker 

 in the middle : beneath from the breast rufous : five 

 of the outer tail-feathers on each side the same ; the 

 exterior one marked with a brown line down the 

 shaft, the two middle feathers brown : tail even at the 

 end. Female with the head and neck brown : and 

 the other colours less brilliant. 



