RING-OUZEL. 



Class II, 



iio. Ring- 

 Ouzel. 



Le Merle ou Collier. Belon 



a-v. 318. 

 Merula torquata. Gefncr an;. 



607. 

 Merlo alpeiirc. AUr. a<v. II. 



282. 

 VVil. orn. 194. Rock or 



Mountain-Ouzel, 195. 

 Mwyalchcn y graig. Camden 



Brit. 795. 

 Lc Merle a plaftron blanc. 



WJ}, d'Oys. III. 340. 

 Rail fyn. a-v. 65. 



Morton Northampt, 425. 



Le Merle a Collier. BriJTon av, 



II. 235. 



Turdus torquatus. Lin» fyjl, 



296. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 221. Scopolit 



No. 198. 

 Dan. RingdrofTel. Nor'vegis 



Ring Troft. Br. 237. 

 Ringhmfel. Kram. 360. 

 Ring'^'l-Amfel. Frifch, I. 30. 

 Br. Zool. 92. plate P. i. f» i. 



Descrip. ry^HESE birds are fuperior in fize to the black 

 X bird: their length is eleven inches; their 

 breadth feventeen. The bill in fotne is wholly 

 black, in others the upper half is yellow : on each 

 fide the mouth are a few bridles : the head and 

 whole upper part of the body are dulky, edged 

 with pale brown : the quil- feathers, and the tail 

 are black. The coverts of the wings, the upper 

 part of the bread, and the belly are dufky, (lightly 

 edged with afh-color. The middle of the bread is 

 adorned with a white crefcent, the horns of which 

 point to the hind part of the neck. In fome 

 birds this is of a pure white, in others of a dirty 

 hue. In the females and in young birds this mark 

 is wanting, which gave occafion to fome natura- 

 lids to form two fpecies of them. 



The Ring-Ouzel inhabits the Highland hills, the 

 north of England, and the mountains of Wales, 



They 



