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Brown Indian Thrush. 
T H E Bird is here figur’d of its natural Bignefs: It appears plain¬ 
ly to be of the Thrufh-Kind, tho’ it be not ipotted. Mr. Albin 
has figur’d it in his third Volume of Birds , P. 1 8. He fays, the exterior 
Edges of the Covert and Quill-Feathers are White, which Whitenefs I 
could not difcover; the Edges ol thefe Feathers are indeed of a lighter 
Brown, but far from White. 
The Bill is pretty much like that of a Thrufh, of a yellow Colour. 
The Head and whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, Rump and 
Tail, are of a dusky dark-brown Colour. The Breaft, 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 middlemost 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 Band three forwards, and one backwards, after the Manner of 
mod Birds. 
This Bird was in the Collection of the late Mr. Dandridge. It was 
brought from Bengal in the Raf-Indies. Mr. Aibin has bedow’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 cf Robert Nesbitt , M. D. EleSl , and Fellow of the 
College of Phyjicians , London . As the Fly is only Black and White, 
the Print uneoloured 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 Albin ; 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 them. The 
