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*The Brown Indian Thrush. 
T H E Bird is here figur’d of its natural Bignefs : It appears plain- 
ly to be of the Thrufti-Kind, tho’ it be not fpotted. Mr. Albin 
lias figur’d it in his third Volume of Birds , P. 18, He fays, the exterior 
Edges of the Covert and Quill-Feathers are White, which Whitenefs I 
could not difcover ; the Edges of thefe Feathers are indeed of a lighter 
Brown, but far from White. 
The Bill is pretty much like that of a Thrufli, of a yellow Colour. 
The Head and whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, Rump and 
Tail, are of a dusky dark-brown Colour. The Bread:,, Belly, Thighs 
and Coverts beneath the Tail, are of a lightifh-brown Colour, gradu- 
ally mixing with the darker Brown on the Sides of the Neck, and the 
upper Part of the Bread: ; the Feathers of the Wings have their Edges 
or Borders a little lighter than their Middles ; the Tail beneath is more 
Dusky than it is above ; the middlemoft Feathers are longer by an 
Inch than the Outfide-ones, they decreafing gradually from the Middle 
to the Sides. The Legs, Toes and Claws, are all of a yellow Colour ; 
the Toes ftand three forwards, and one backwards, after the Mariner of 
moft Birds* 
This Bird was in the Colledlion of the late Mr. Dandridge , It was 
brought from Bengal in the Fajl-Indies . Mr. Albin has beftow’d a 
beautiful yellow Colour on its Eyes, tho’ I am obliged to omit the men- 
tioning them, becaufe it had only Glafs-Beads in the Place of its former 
Eyes,.. The Indians of Bengal call it Baniahbow . 
The black and white Butterfly from China , figur’d with the Bird, is 
in the Collection of Robert Nesbitt , M. D . EleB , and Fellow of the 
College of PhyfcianSy London . As the Fly is only Black and White, 
the Print uncoloured defcribes itfelf better than Words : It hath brown 
Eyes, and a faint TinCture of Brown on the under Wings where they 
touch the Body. The black Spots are fomething fainter on the under 
Side than they are above. 
I have added fome new and curious Subjects to the Plates of Mr. 
Dandridge s Birds, that have already been publifhed by Albm ; as I 
don’t pretend thofe Birds in thefe Plates of mine are New, I have only 
carefully endeavoured to give more perfect Draughts and Defcriptions 
of therm The 
