ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
TURDUS AURANTIIROSTRIS, Harriavs. 
Puats LXXII. 
Turdus aurantiirostris, Hartl. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. ii. 1850, p. 158, —— Catharus 
immaculatus, Bonp. Conspect. p. 278 (Auct. Haritl.) 
M. Harrnavs of Bremen has kindly forwarded to us a drawing of 
a thrush from Venezuela, which he last year described in the Revue 
et Magazine de Zoologie. Our plate is lithographed from this 
drawing, and we add below the observations which accompanied it. 
A bird is described by the Prince of Canino in his Conspectus, from 
the Caraccas, which M. Hartlaub refers to this, and of which the 
Prince constitutes a new genus, though to judge from the drawing 
now received, we would have considered it a true Thrush. 
“T formerly described the bird from a very fine specimen, freshly 
imported from Caraccas. It had then the beak and the naked skin 
round the eye of a lively orange colour. When I saw the same speci- 
men about one year later, all this fine colour had vanished, and. the 
same parts were of an obsolete yellow. Bonaparte’s generic sepa- 
ration is to be adopted, at least I adopt it with great pleasure. He 
says in his generic character ‘cauda brevis,’ This is not quite 
correct, and I would propose to put for it cada breviuscula.” 
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