THE



Avicultural Magazine


THE JOURNAL OF THE

AVICULTURAL SOCIETY



Fifth Series .—VoL III.—No. 9 .—All rights reserved. SEPTEMBER, 1938.



REEVE’S THRUSH


Turdus reevei

By P. H. Maxwell


We have in the Zoological Gardens of London a most interesting

bird from Ecuador called Reeve’s Thrush—it has been given various

scientific names by different naturalists. I have chosen to use here

the most simple one. The sexes are similar in this bird. The following

is a description of the bird :—


The general colour of the upper parts is slate grey, shading into dark

slate on the head ; lores brown, ear coverts dark slate grey, no trace of

eye-stripe ; wings brown, the wing coverts, innermost secondaries,

and unmarginated portions of the outer webs of the quills, slate grey ;

tail brown, the central feathers and outside web of other tail feathers

slate grey. Chin and throat nearly white, streaked with nearly black ;

rest of underparts pale brownish grey, shading into nearly white ;

axillaries and wing-coverts pale brownish grey ; inner margins of

quills pale slate grey. Bill bright yellow. Wing with third, fourth,

and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary inter¬

mediate in length between the seventh and eighth, bastard primary

1 • 1 to 0 • 95 in. Legs, feet, and claws pale yellow. Length of wing 4 • 68



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