Port-Jackson Thrush

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


the best known birdamong the Australian Shrike-thrushes (q.v.), Colluricincla harmonica, Lath.; called also the Austral Thrush, and Harmonic Thrush by Latham.It is also the C. cinerea of Vigors and Horsfield andthe Turdus harmonicus of Latham, and it has receivedvarious other scientific and vernacular names; Colonel Leggehas now assigned to it the name of Grey Shrike-Thrush.Gould called it the «Harmonious Colluricincla.»

1790. J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 157:

«The Port-Jackson thrush, of which a plate is annexed, inhabitsthe neighbourhood of Port Jackson. The top of headblueish-grey; back is a fine chocolate brown; wings and taillead-colour; under part dusky white. . . . The bill, dullyellow; legs brown.»

1822. John Latham, `General History of Birds,' vol. v.p. 124:

«Austral Thrush. [A full description.] Inhabits New South Wales.»

[Latham describes two other birds, the Port JacksonThrush and the Harmonic Thrush, and he usesdifferent scientific names for them. But Gould, regardingLatham's specimens as all of the same species, takes allLatham's scientific and vernacular names as synonyms for thesame bird.]

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. ii. pl. 74:

«The Colluricincla harmonica is one of the oldest known of the

Australian birds, having been described in Latham's `Index

Ornithologicus,' figured in White's `Voyage' and included in

the works of all subsequent writers.»

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

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