6o.
SHINING THR.
Turdus nitens, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 294. N° 13.
Le Merle verd d’Angola, Brif. o n .11. p. 311. N° 53. pi. 30. f. 2.
D e scr ip t ion . C I Z E of a Blackbird : length nine inches. Bill black: the
V. plumage is wholly of a gloffy fine green colour, except fome
of the Idler wing coverts, which are of a bright fteel-blue, fortri-
ing a fpot on the fore part of the wing of this laft colour: legs
black.
Place* ■ Inhabits Angola and the Cape of Good Hope *.
60.
V ar. A.
Le Merle vert d’Angola, Buf. oif. iii. p. 372«— Pl. enl. 561.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
D escription. g I Z E of the laft. The upper parts of the head, neck, body,
and tail, are of a gloffy olive-green : the rump blue : on the
wings are here and there fome dark fpots, and the back has a
tinge of blue in fome lights : throat blue: fore part of the neck
blue green : breaft, belly, thighs, and feathers covering the ears,
violet: vent olive yellow : legs black.
P lace. Found in the fame place as the laft. Suppofed to be a variety
only.
» One from this laft place is in the collection of Sir J . Banks.
Le Merle verd à longue queue du Sénégal, Brif. ortt. ü. p. 313. N 54»
pl. 31. f. 1 .— Buf. oif. iii. p. 36g.— PI. ni. 220.
Le Merle cuivre d’Afrique, Salon, on. p. 182.
C I Z E larger than a
which the tail makes
Blackbird: length eighteen inches, of
eleven. The bill black : general colour
of the plumage gloffy green in different fhades : the head inclines
to blackifh, with a gold caff: belly and thighs glofied with copper:
rump, and two middle tail feathers, incline to purple; the
fhape of the laft greatly cuneiform, the outermofl feather being
very Ihort: legs black.
Inhabits Senegal. Buffon mentions one in the Cabinet du Roi,
which had a much Ihorter ta il; but fuppofes it not to have been
in a perfeft ftate.
Le Merle violet du Royaume de Juida, Buf, oif. iii. p. 373. Pi- ‘ «1. 540.
C I Z E of the laft. Bill brown : irides yellow : the head, neck,
^ and under parts of the body, are violet: back and wings of
a gilded green, with a band of blue on the inner edge : the upper
tail coverts and tail blue: legs reddilh brown.
Inhabits the kingdom o f Wbidah, in Africa, and feems to bear
much affinity to the two laft-defcribed.
Le Merle bleu de la Chine, Son.Voy.ini. vol.ii. p. 188. pl. 10B.
C I Z E of our Blackbird. Bill black: irides red: the whole
plumage of a changeable violet blue : the feathers of the
head, neck, breaft, and wing coverts, have at the end a band of
V ol. II. I changeable
61.
GLOSSY THR.
D escription .
Place.
6u
GILDED THR.,
Description.
P lace.
63.
VIOLET THR.
Description*