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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Song ?Cbru6b, 



The Song Thrush {Turdus vinsiciis^ Linnaeus) is generally 

 distributed throughout the British Isles. It is more or 

 less migratory in its habits, leaving in the late autumn 

 and returning in early spring. The adult is dark olive- 

 brown on the upper parts; eye -stripe, buff; quills and 

 wing-coverts, margined with deep yellowish -brown, and 

 there are buff tips to some of the feathers ; under parts, 

 buff, shading into white on belly; sides of throat, chest, 

 and remainder of body, profusely spotted and blotched 

 with dark brown ; irides, legs, and feet, pale brown ; bill, 

 dark brown. Length, about eight inches. 



