MERULID^. 



Turdus Naumanni. Ternm. Man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 170. — Nau- 

 man's Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. 37. 



Inhabits South-eastern Europe. Length nine 

 inches : beak and legs brown : crown and ears deep 

 brown : the rest of the upper parts rufous-ash, some- 

 what deeper on the sides of the neck, the rump, and 

 under tail-feathers : scapulars edged with the same, 

 and the middle of the feathers of the breast, belly, and 

 sides, with similar markings, forming spots : middle 

 of the belly and thighs pure white : quills and two 

 middle tail-feathers deep brown : the tail rufous be- 

 neath. Both sexes are alike. 



Sp. 43. Tu? phoenicurus. 



Turdus phoenicurus, Steph. v. x. 300. — Le Janfredric. Le 

 Vaill. Ois. d Afriq. iii. pi. \ \. f. \, 2. — Motacilla pect oralis. 

 /S^atu, iVa^. 265.— Southern Africa. 



Sp. 44. Tu } pipiens. 



Tu ? cinereo'jusciis infra Juscescente-albus ; guld maculata ; su- 

 perciliis undulisqiie scapidaribus albis; remi gibus Juscis ; caudd 

 cuneata, pennis margine apiceque albis. 



Ashy-brown Thrush beneath brownish-white ; with the throat 

 spotted j the eyebrows and scapulary waves white ; the quills 

 brown ; the tail wedged, its feathers and tip edged with white. 



Le Grivetin. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. iii. pi. WS.f. 1, 2. — Piping 

 Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 57- 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Rather less than the 

 Nightingale : beak, legs, and irides light brown : base 

 of the under jaw, the mouth, and the tongue yel- 

 low : head, hind neck, back, and wings grey-brown, 

 inclining to rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts : 

 under parts of the body dirty brownish-white : on the 

 throat a few white markings of the same, on a whiter 



