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Corvns brachyurus. L in . S y jl. i. p. 138. N° 15.
. Le Merle verd des Moluques, Br if. am . ii. p. 316. N° 56. pi. 32. f. I '
Breve de Bengale, Bu f. oif. iii. p. 414.
Merle de Bengale, PI, enl. 258.
C IZ E of a Blackbird: length feven inches. Bill grey brown :
corners of the mouth orange : irides whitilh : head and throat
black: over the eye a fulvous dripe,/from the noftrils to the
hind head : hind part of the neck, the back, and fcapulafs, fine
green : throat, neck, bread, belly, Tides, and thighs, fulvous:
under the wings black : leffer wing coverts fhining’blue green ;
greater ones the fame as the back : quills black ; on 'the -fix firft
a white fpot about the middle : tail not above an inch in length,'
black, tipped with green : legs long, orange : claws dirty red.
Inhabits the Molucca IJles.
Le Merle à tête-noire des,Moluques, B r if. orn. ii. p. 319. N° 57. pi,-32. f. 2.
Breve des Philippines, Bu f, o if iii. p. 41:3. N0 1.
Merle des Philippines, P i, enl. 89.
C IZ E lefs than the laft : length fix inches and a quarter. Bill
brown : head, throat, and neck, black : back and fcapulars
deep green: bread, upper part of the belly, and fides, paler
green : lower part of the belly black, tipped with rofe-eolour :
under tail coverts rofe-colour : rump, upper tail coverts, and
upper wing coverts, Alining blue green : quills black at the bafe,
then white, terminated with black brown : leffer quills blackifii,
with the inner webs tipped ,wi£h green, and fome quite green :
tail black : legs light brown.
Inhabits the Molucca IJles, with the lad.
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La Breve, Buf. oif. iii. p.413. N®2.
Madras J.ay, R aii Syn. p. 195. N° 12. t. 1. N® ic. V ar . B.
Bengal Quail, Albin. vol. i. pi. 31.
Short-tailedPye, EJnu. pi. 324.
g I Z E o f the others- The b i l l is brownilh fledi-colour: the head D e s c r i f t i c . ..
is not black, as in the lad, but only three bands of that colour
; one of which begins at the bafe of the upper mandibley
pafling over the crown o f the head, and down the neck, quite to
the backi and: one on each fide of the head, beginning at the corner
of the mouth, and pading under the eye, down the fides of the
neck, to, the back : above the eye is a dripe of orange brown;
through the eye a white line, and another of white under the
black line on the fides of the neck; fo that the lucceflion of colours
on each fide, beginning from the black at the top, is
orange brown, white, black, and again white :. the back and wing
coverts are green :. tail coverts and leffer wing coverts blue
green: quills and tail black; the fird white in the middle, tipped
with yellowiih; the fecond with green : all beneath, from the
throat to the tail, is buff-colour; reddilh near the vent : legs-
reddifii yellow.
Inhabits Ceylon,, in, the Eajl Indies% Blaor.
Breve de Madagalcar, Bu f. oif. iii. p. 414. N° 4.
Merle, des Moluques, PI. enl. 257,
HpHE head of this variety is dill: different from the others. The
top is blackifii brown, with a little yellow on the back part
and:
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