. A general synopsis of birds . are brown : the mar-gins of the feathers grey : fore part of the neck and breaftbrown, glofied with violet: belly brown, the feathers edged withgrey : thighs, rump, and lower belly, white : vent, and under tailcoverts, red : the quills and tail are brown ; the feathers of thefirft edged with grey; the fhape of the laft is cuneiform, the bafeis brown, and the tip white; legs black. oIZE of a Lark : length eight inches. Bill three quarters of aninch, a trifle bent, black : the head and chin are black : the up-per parts of the body and wings are brownilh afh-colour
. A general synopsis of birds . are brown : the mar-gins of the feathers grey : fore part of the neck and breaftbrown, glofied with violet: belly brown, the feathers edged withgrey : thighs, rump, and lower belly, white : vent, and under tailcoverts, red : the quills and tail are brown ; the feathers of thefirft edged with grey; the fhape of the laft is cuneiform, the bafeis brown, and the tip white; legs black. oIZE of a Lark : length eight inches. Bill three quarters of aninch, a trifle bent, black : the head and chin are black : the up-per parts of the body and wings are brownilh afh-colour, ftreakedwith pale brown; beneath, cinereous white: the vent crimfon :quills and tail brown, the laft a little cuneiform; three of theouter feathers tipped with white : legs the mufeum of the late Dr. Hunter, Lev. Muf. C I Z E of a Lark: length eleven inches and a half. Bill flightly notched near the tip ; colour black : head, neck, back, and wing coverts, gloffy purplifh black : rump white: the under 5 parts PI XXXIX. umy-f/v/ur/ • /// Pti THRUSH. parts, from the breaft, ferruginous orange: quills dufky olack : thetail is greatly cuneiform in fhape, the two middle feathers beingfix inches and a half long, and the outer ones only two inches anda half; the four middle feathers are wholly black; the next oneach fide, half black half white; and the three outer ones whollywhite: legs pale yellow : claws black. Inhabits Pulo Condore. Sonnerat defcribes one very like thisfrom the coaft of Malabar *. The four middle tail feathers inhis bird were black ; the others half black half white. 94-Le Merle dAmboine, Brif. orn. ii. p. 244. N° 16.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 394. AMBOINA Avicula Amboinenfis cinerea, Seba, vol. i. p. 99. t. 6z. f. 4. THR. O I Z E bigger than a Lark. The head, neck, and upper parts Description. of the body, are reddiih brown: breaft and under parts lightyellow : the prime quills are reddilh brown; the lefler ones thefame, half their length from
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