268 AYES. 



in the North, is the best known; it nestles on inaccessible 

 cliffs, in ruins, and sings well. The head and neck of the male 

 are of a blue ash colour, the back brown, rump white; beneath, 

 and the tail, orange. (l) 

 The name of Grives is given, in France, to those species, whose 

 plumage is what is termed in that country griveU, that is to say, 

 marked with small black or brown spots. There are four of them in 

 Europe, all with brown backs, and spotted breasts; they are singing 

 birds, which live on insects and berries, migrate in large flocks, 

 and whose flesh is an agreeable food. 



T. viscivorus, L.; La Drenne. (The Missle Thrush.) Enl. 

 489; Frisch, xxv; Naum. 66, 1. Is the largest; the underpart 

 of its wings is white; it is extremely fond of the misletoe, and 

 contributes to the dissemination of that parasitical plant. 



T. pilaris, L. ; La Litorne, Enl. 490; Frisch, xxvi; Naum. 

 67, 2. Which is chiefly distinguished from the Viscivorus by 

 the ash colour on the top of its head and neck. 



T. musicus, L. ; La Grive, properly so called, Enl. 406; 

 Frisch, xxvii; Naum. 66, 2. Underpart of the wings yellow; 

 the best songster of the four, and the one most commonly eaten. 

 T. iliacus, L. ; Le Mauvis, Enl. 51, Frisch. xxviii; Naum. 

 67, 1. (The Mavis.) The smallest of the whole number; 

 under part of the wings and flanks, red. (2) 



The species of the genus Thrush, foreign to Europe, are very 

 numerous. We will particularly notice 



T. poly glottus,!^.; CvLiesh.jiXvi. (The Mocking-Bird.) From 

 North America; ash coloured above, paler beneath, with a white 

 band on the wing. It is celebrated for the astonishing facility 

 with which it imitates the notes of other birds, and even all 

 liinds of sounds. (3) 



( 1 ) It is possible, as is observed by Shaw, that it was by confounding it with the 

 Siberian Jay, that Linnseus attributed to it the habits of a Harpy, and at one time 

 calls it Corvics, and at another, Laniiis infmistus. 



We may approximate to the saxatilis the Eocar, Vaill. Afr. 101 and 102 ; the 

 Espionneur, Id, 103. 



The other species, allied to the Solitary Thrushes by their speckled plumage, 

 are Turdus manillensis, Enl. 636; probably the same as T. violaceus, Sonnerat, 2d 

 Voy.pl. cviii; T. eremita, Enl. 339; T. varius, Horsf.; Myiothera Mndrome- 

 dse, Tem. Col. 392. 



(2) Two additional species have been taken, though very rarely, in Germany; 

 the Thrush, with the hack and flank spotted with red {T. Naumanni), 'Na.um. 68, 

 and that with crhlack breast and throat ( T. Bechsteinii) , Naum. 69. 



(3) The Little Mocking-bird, ( T. orpheus), Edw., 78 ; Le Moqueur de St Domingue, 

 (T. dominicus), Enl. 558, 1, are very closely allied to it, as well as the T.gilvus, 

 Vieill. Am. 68. 



