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TURDUS ILIACUS. THE RED-SIDED THRUSH, 

 OR REDWING. 



WIND THRUSH. SWINEPIPE. 



Turdus iliacus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 292. 



Turdus iliacus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 32,0. 



Redwing. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Merle Mauvis- Turdus Iliacus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 



Redwing. Merula iliaca. Selb. Illustr. I. 165. 



Turdus iliacus. Redwing. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 100. 



L 16c 



Upper parts deep hair-broicn, inclining to olive; a blackish- 

 brown spot before the eye, a large whitish band over it ; secondary 

 coverts tipped icith greyish-tv^hite ; fore-part of neck and breast 

 tchite, with longitudinal streaks of blackish-brown and pale 

 broii'n ; middle of the sides and lower wing-coverts light red. 



Male. — In form and colour the Redwing bears a great resem- 

 blance to the Song Thrush, from which however it may readily 

 be distinguished at a distance by its having a broad whitish 

 conspicuous band over the eye, and at hand by the large red patch 

 on its sides, and the more elongated and generally paler spots 

 on its lower parts. It is smaller, and proportionally more slen- 



