RING OUZEL. 



MERULA TOROUATA. 

 Family Passerid^. Sub-family Turdix.45. Genus Merula. 



Ring Thrush — Rock Ouzel — Mountain Blackbird— Moor 

 Blackbird. 



This bird is by no means so common as those we 

 have previously mentioned. It is in fact a local bird, 

 being much more common in the North than in the 

 South of England. The mountain districts are its 

 favourite home, and the heather its breeding place. 

 It has, however, been known to breed in several 

 southern counties, amongst others in Leicester, Kent, 

 Cornwall, and Hampshire, where in 1874 a nest was 

 taken in our kitchen garden at Oueenwood, placed in 

 a pear tree on the wall. This is a case in which, if 

 a collector in the South should come upon a nest 

 which he imagines to be a Ring Ouzel's, great care is 



