. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. TUKDIJS. 227 replaced by brown, and have dark l)ars across the ends of the smaller featliers, and ochraceous sijots at the tips of the wing-coverts. The Zanzibar Thrush has only been procured in the district whose name it bears. The British Museum does not possess an example of this well- marked species. The type is in the EcrKu Museum, and specimens are also iu the collections of Capt. Shelley and of the writer. 43. Turdus olivaceus. Le Merle olive du Cap de Bonne-Esperauce, Bn'ss. Orn. ii. p. 294, pi. xxii. %. 3 (1760); 3Io/itb. Hist. Kaf. O
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. TUKDIJS. 227 replaced by brown, and have dark l)ars across the ends of the smaller featliers, and ochraceous sijots at the tips of the wing-coverts. The Zanzibar Thrush has only been procured in the district whose name it bears. The British Museum does not possess an example of this well- marked species. The type is in the EcrKu Museum, and specimens are also iu the collections of Capt. Shelley and of the writer. 43. Turdus olivaceus. Le Merle olive du Cap de Bonne-Esperauce, Bn'ss. Orn. ii. p. 294, pi. xxii. %. 3 (1760); 3Io/itb. Hist. Kaf. Ois. iii. p. 381 (1775). Turdus olivaceus, Linn. Si/st. Xaf. i. p. 292 (17G(>) ; Gmel. Syst. iSW. i. p. 810 (1788); Lufh. lud. Orn. i. p. 351(1790); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 2in_(1847); Bp. Consp. i. p. 273 (1850); Cab. Ohve Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. OG (1783). In the adnit male the general colour of the upper parts is dull olive-brown, shading into russet-brown on the forehead, some- what darker and browner on the inner webs of the quills and tail- foathei-s; lores and ear-coverts brown; no trace of eye-stripe. Chin and iipper throat white, with longitudinal dark-brown streaks, which become almost confluent on the cheeks; breast grevish brown, shading into bright orange-chestnut on the flanks and belly; under 1 ail-coverts brown, with white centres running out to the tips ; axillaries and under wing-coverts bright huffish chestnut ; inner margin of quills pale chestnut-brown. Bill dusky yellow above and below. Wings with tlie third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary between the seventh and eighth, bastard primary 1-0 to 0-8 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale. Length of wing 5-05 to 4-45 inches, tail 3-9 to 3*4, culnien 1-U to 0-9, tarsus 1-4 to 1-2. There appears to be no diff'erence in the plumage of the scvex, nor does any change worthy of note take jilace by abrasion. Birds of the year have the wing-coverts tipped with chestnu
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