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THE RmO OUZEL. 



TURDUS TORQUATUS. 



Pluiiifige black edged with greyish white ; a large crescent-shaped pure white 

 spot on the throat ; bill and legs dusky. Female with the gorget smaller and 

 tinged with red and grey, and the rest of the plumage greyer. Length ten 

 inches. Eggs greenish white, spotted with redcQsh brown and grey. 



Ring Ouzel is hardly an appropriate name for this bird ; 

 for in reality it does not wear a ring round its neck, but 

 a white gorget on its breast, the contrast between whicli 

 and its black plumage is very striking. It frequents the 

 mountainous parts of Great Britain, where, though never 

 so abundant as the Blackbird and Thrush are in the plains, 

 it is far from uncommon. It is a migratory bird, arriving 

 in this country in April, and returning to its southern 

 winter quarters — Corsica and other islands of the Mediter- 

 ranean — early in autumn ; not so early, however, as to miss 

 the vintage season of the south of Europe. In summer it 

 travels as far north as Sweden and Norway, where, on the 



