. A history of British birds . PASSERES. 0Ol,l)-VENTET) THRUSH. 247. Pycnonotus capensis (Linnaeus*). GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. Turdus cmrigaster\. Pycnonotus, KuldX-—Bill moderately long, somewhat decurved and laterallycompressed, nostrils basal, oval and placed in a groove, a few bristles at thegape. Wings moderate and rounded, with the fourth, fifth and sixth quillsnearly equal and longest. Tail moderate and almost square. Tarsi stout,generally covered in front with a single scale ; toes moderate, the lateral toes un-equal, the hind toe rather long and strong. In the mouth of January, 1838, this
. A history of British birds . PASSERES. 0Ol,l)-VENTET) THRUSH. 247. Pycnonotus capensis (Linnaeus*). GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. Turdus cmrigaster\. Pycnonotus, KuldX-—Bill moderately long, somewhat decurved and laterallycompressed, nostrils basal, oval and placed in a groove, a few bristles at thegape. Wings moderate and rounded, with the fourth, fifth and sixth quillsnearly equal and longest. Tail moderate and almost square. Tarsi stout,generally covered in front with a single scale ; toes moderate, the lateral toes un-equal, the hind toe rather long and strong. In the mouth of January, 1838, this South-African hircl wasshot at Mount Beresford, three miles and a half from Water- * Tardus capensis, Linniuus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. i. p. 295 (1766). f Not Turdus aurigaster, Vieillot. X Isis, 1826, p. 973. Prof. Agassiz (Nomenclator Zoologicus. Aves, p. 66)quotes Pycnonotus Kuhl Av. col. nom. syst. 1820; but the reference is in-correct, and the Editor cannot supply an earlier date for the genus than thatnow given, when it was used by F, Uoie as of Kuhls foundati
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