TUEDID^. 



6. Blackbied. Turdus merula, Linureus. 

 Male. Black : bill orange-yellow. 



Eesident. 



E. Asia. 



N. Asia, 

 wintering- in 

 S. Asia, Java, 

 and Sumatra. 



S. Europe, 

 wintering in 

 Africa. 



C. Asia, 

 1[.E. Africa, 

 passing S. in 

 winter, 



Female. Brownish black or reddish brown : bill brown. 

 Yoang. Like female, but more spotted ; the male with blackish bill. 

 Length 10 inches. 



7. EiNG-OuzEL. Turdus torquatus, Linuosus. Spring to autumn*; 

 breeding in hilly districts ; occasionally remainir.g throughout the year. 



3Iale. Uniform brownish black, with white crescent on chest. 

 Female. Lighter ; crescent nan-ower, washed with brown. 

 Young. Spotted. Length 11 inches. 



8. Whites Thrush. GeocicJda varia (Pallas). Eare winter straggler. 

 General colour above olive-brown, each feather with a crescent-shaped 



black band across the end. Axillaries with tJie basal half white, rest 

 black; white band across the underpart of the wing. Fourteen tail- 

 feathers. Length 12| inches. 



[Siberian Thrush. Geocichla sibirlca (Pallas). One specimen, said 

 to be from Surrey, 1860 (F. Bond). 



Axillaries tuhite, with slatij-grey tips. Tail of twelve feathers. 



Male. General colour slate-grey; with conspicuous white eye-stripe 

 reaching to nape. 



Female. General colour above olive-brown ; below with brown curved 

 marks ; eye-stripe buff. Length 9 inches.] 



9. Eock-Thrush. Monticula saxat'dis (Linnaeus). One occurrence : 

 Herts, 1843. 



Tail chestnut, two centre feathers darker than others ; axillaries and 

 lower parts chestnut. 



Male. Head and neck blue ; centre of baclv nearly white. 

 Female. Brown, mottled. Length Ik inches. 



10. "WiiEATEA.R. Saxicola onianthe, Linnaeus. ' Spring to autumn. 



Axillaries white, with dark centres. 



Male. Above pale slate-grey ; below white ; ear-coverts black. 



Female. Above dull brown ; below buff; ear-coverts dark brown. 



Young. Like the female, but spotted with dark markings on feathers 

 above and below. 



Both sexes in autumn are alike, resembling female in spriug, but have 

 buff margins to all the feathers. 



(Eump vjhite, as with all the Wheatears in fhis list.) 



11. IsabellijSTE Wheatear. Saxicola isabellina, Eiippell. Once: 

 Nov. 1887, Cumberland. 



Sexes alike, above sandy or dull brown, some\\liat like the female of 

 S. a'nanthe. Axillaries and under luing-coverts white. Terminal half ol 

 tail black, rest white : the two centre feathers with more black than the 

 others. 



* " Spring to autumn," see remarks in the Introduction. 



