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Description.
Turdus-caffer, Lin. Syji. i. p. 295. N° 16.
Le Merle hupé du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. ii. 9. 257. N° 23.
pi. 20. f. 2.— Buf.oif. iii. p. 393.— PI. cnl. 563. f. 1.
Le Gobe-mouche à tête noire de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ihd. ii.' p. 197.
g I G G E R than the crefted Lark t length eight inches. Bill
one inch, blackifh : the head -a little crefted : head and creft
violet black : the upper parts of the body are brown : the margins
of the feathers grey : fore part of the neck and breaft
brown, glofled with violet : belly brown, the feathers edged with
grey : thighs, rump, and lower belly, white : vent, and under tail
coverts, red : the quills and tail are brown ; the feathers of the
firft edged with grey ; the lhape of the laft is cuneiform, the bafe
is brown, and the tip white : legs black.
q IZ E of a L a rk : length eight inches. Bill three quarters o f an
inch, a trifle bent, black : the head and chin are black : the upper
parts of the body and wings are brownilh afh-colour, ftreaked
with pale brown; beneath, cinereous white : the vent crimfon :
quills and tail brown, the laid a little cuneiform; three of the
outer feathers tipped with white : legs black.
In the mufeum of the late Dr. Hunter.
L f v. Muf,
g I Z E of a L a rk : length eleven inches and a half. Bill
flightly notched near the tip j colour black : head, neck, back,
and wing coverts, glofiy purplilh black : rump white: the under
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