116 TURDUS VISCIVORUS. 



second with ten, the third with thirteen, the fourth with twelve 

 ecutella ; the fourth is a little longer than the second, the first 

 longer, and the third by much the longest. The claws are 

 rather long, much compressed, tapering, arched, acute. 



The plumage is ordinary, rather compact, but soft, and slightly 

 glossed ; the feathers oblong, rounded, and nearly simple, hav- 

 ing but a slight plumule. There is a row of bristle-feathers 

 along the base of the upper mandible. From the hind-head 

 there are protruded beyond the feathers eight slender simple 

 filaments, as in the Fieldfare. The wings are long, broad, and 

 rounded ; the quills eighteen ; the first extremely small and 

 narrow, the second and fifth about equal, the third and fourth 

 equal and longest ; the third, fourth, and fifth slightly cut out 

 on their outer edge ; all the primaries rounded, the inner more 

 broadly, with a minute tip ; the secondaries long, broad, broadly 

 rounded, the outer abrupt, with a minute tip. The wings when 

 closed extend to the middle of the tail-feathers. The tail is 

 rather long, slightly rounded, nearly straight, its feathers of 

 moderate breadth, and rounded, with a minute tip. 



The upper mandible is dusky-brown, its edges lighter ; the 

 lower flesh-coloured at the base, dark brown in its distal half; 

 the skin at the opening, and the inside of the mouth yellow. 

 The edges of the eyelids are dusky ; the iris brown. The feet are 

 flesh-coloured, the claws brownish-black. The general colour 

 of the plumage on the upper parts is light olivaceous brown 

 tinged with grey ; the upper part of the head, and especially 

 the hind-neck lighter, with more grey; the hind part of 

 the back passes into yellowish-brown, the rump into ochre- 

 yellow, and the upper tail-coverts are tipped with greyish- 

 white. The quills, alula, and primary coverts are deep brown, 

 narrowly margined with greyish-yellow ; the secondary coverts, 

 with the greater part of their outer webs greyish-brown, their 

 tips, and those of the first row of coverts yellowish-white. 

 The tail-feathers are greyish-brown, slightly margined with 

 yellowish, and more or less tipped with greyish-white ; the 

 greater part of the lateral feathers, and the terminal portion of 

 the next, grey, both largely tipped with white on the inner 

 web, and the inner web of the former indistinctly barred with 



