HA BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The beak of the Song Thrush is dark horn-colour 
on the upper mandible and on the tip of the lower ; 
the base of the lower mandible yellowish brown; 
vides hazel; the whole of the upper parts are 
uniform dull olive-brown; each feather of the 
sreater and lesser wing-coverts is tipped with buff, 
which forms two lines of that colour on the closed 
wings; the primary quills and the tail are rather 
darker than the rest of the upper parts; the ear- 
coverts are yellowish buff and brown, surrounded by 
dark brown; all the under parts yellowish buff, 
lighter, nearly white, in the centre, speckled with 
very dark brown; legs and toes pale brown; claws 
darker brown. 
The back and scapular feathers in young birds 
have each a pale yellow spot in the centre; the 
smaller wing-coverts are streaked with pale brown. 
Varieties of the Song Thrush oceusionally occur. 
I once saw, at Mrs. Turle’s, a whole brood quite 
white, which had been brought in to be stuffed. 
The eggs are about the same size as those of the 
Blackbird, but rather rounder; bright blue, thinly 
spotted with black. 
Repwine, Turdus iliacus. The Redwing, or as it 
often locally called, the ‘‘ Wind Thrush,” is a winter 
visitor to this country, generally arriving rather 
before the Fieldfare: my own earliest note of their 
arrival is the 12th of October. They depart for the 
North about the beginning or middle of April. 
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