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TURDUS PILARIS. THE CHESTNUT-BACKED 

 THRUSH, OR FIELDFARE. 



FELTYFARE. FELDYFAR. FELTYFLIER. GREY THRUSH. LIATH-TROISG. 



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Fig. 129. 



Turdus pilaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 291. 



Turdus pilaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 330- 



Fieldfare. Mont. Oru. Diet. 



Merle Litome. Turdus pilaris. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 103. 



Fieldfare. Turdus pilaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 160. 



Turdus pilaris. Fieldfare. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 99- 



Head, hind-neck and rump, grey ; fore part of the hack chest- 

 nut ; space before the eye hrownish-hlack ; a whitish line over 

 the eye ; fore-neck and sides reddish-yellow, on the former the 

 feathers tipped with a hrownish-hlack triangular spot, oti the 

 latter their principal part of that colour. 



^Iale. — In form and proportion.? the Fieldfare resembles the 

 Black and Ringed Thrushes ; but in colour is more allied to 

 the Missel Thrush and Redwing. It is in fact precisely inter- 

 mediate between the uniformly coloured species, or Ouzels, 

 and those of which the fore part of the neck is spotted, or the 

 Thrushes, having the form of the one, and the colouring 



