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Place and
Manners.
Varieties.
T H R U S H .
of the neck to the breaft, taking in the eye, under which it is
broadeft : the belly, thighs, and vent, are alh-colour : the legs
blueilh.
This bird is found with the others, and is faid to have a tremulous
note, ending in a fharp lhort cry. The neft is made of
mofs; and the eggs are brown, the fize of thofe of a Sparrow,
marked with fpots of a deeper colour at the larger end.
Thele are lively birds, but feldom fly to any diftance; and are
often feen running up the trees like the Creeper and Woodpecker,
fupporting themfelves by the tail. Are fubjeft to variety. In
fome fpecimens the chin and throat are rufous, bounded with
black, inftead of being wholly black; the ends of the tail-
feathers black; and a bed of white between the Ihoulders.
In others, the middle of the chin and throat is nearly white;
and in all of them the belly and vent are cinereous, and the thighs
in fome few rufous brown.
121. BLUE-TAILED
THR.
Description.
I/A7urin, Buf. oi/. iii. p. 410.. iv. p. 470.
Merle de la Guiane, PL enl. 355.
rJ 1 H I S exceeds a Blackbird in fize, and is eight inches and a
half in length. Bill one inch, brown : the top of the head
to the nape is black : from the noftrils, over the eye, pafles an
orange band, meeting at the neck behind :. from the gape Iprings
a broad ftripe of black, taking in the eye, and palling on each
fide the neck to the back : the chin and throat are pale yellow :
on the breaft is a broad band of blue : the back, fcapulars, and adjoining
wing coverts, reddifh brown; but thofe next the outer
part and quills are black, except the greater wing coverts, which
have a white tip, forming an oblique indented band on the
T H R U S H .
wincr j the tail is two inches and a half only in length, cuneiform,
and of a blue colour :. all the under parts of the body, from the
breaft to . the vent, are .tranfverfely ftriped with blue and yellow
alternate : the legs are brown. .
This inhabits Guiana, and is, a rare fpecies." It feems to ft and
between the Crow genus and that of the Thrujh, properly, belonging
to neither, and placed by us at the . heels of the laft, from
many charafteriftics denoting its near alliance.
Lè Roi des FourmilHers, Buf. dij. iv. p. 468.—W. ml. 702.
'"TH IS is as large-in the body asthe MiJJel Thrujh, yet from the
1 fhortnefs of the tail > only feven inches and a half in
length.' The bill is brown, and meafures lefs.than an mch.and a
quarter; is ftout at the bafe, and bent towards the point; and,
were the noftrils covered with reflefted briftles, would pafs for one
of the Crow genus; the bafe is befet: with a few briftles: the
plumage on the upper parts of the body is rufous brown, darkeft
on the back and wing coverts, each, feather of which has a pale
lhaft: the quills are dufky : the back part of the head is lead-
colour : the forehead, to the middle of the crown, is mixed white
and brown : the- under parts of the body are paler rufous brown,
changing to whitiih towards the vent, and clouded with buff on
the .breaft : from the fide of the under jaw is a ftreak of white,
and on the middle of the breaft is a triangular patch of the fame :
the tail is very lhort, only fourteen lines long, juft peeping from
the rump : the legs are long,- of a reddifh colour, and bare above
the knee, but the thighs are lhort: the claws are pale/ The
female bigger than the male•
Place.
122.
KING THR.
Description.
V ol. II. N This