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Remarks.- Migratory, arriving in April or May, 

 and departing in September and October. Notes : 

 kai y kai, kai. Local and other names: Eagle 

 Fisher, Mullet Hawk, Fish Hawk. Sits lightly, 

 according to Mr. Dixon, but pretty closely accord- 

 ing to Mr. Seebohm. My own experience coincides 

 with that of the former authority. 



OUZEL, RING. 



(Turdus torquatus.) 

 Order PASSERES ; Family TURDID^: (THRUSHES). 



Description of Parent Birds. 

 Length about eleven inches. 

 Bill brownish-black, with a 

 variable amount of yellow at 

 the base, nearly straight, and 

 of medium length. Irides 

 hazel. Head, neck, back, 

 wings, rump and tail black, 



YOUNG RING OUZEL. -,- -, ,-, ,. -, .., , 



slightly tinged with brown, 



and margined, more or less, with grey, especi- 

 ally on the wings. Chin, throat, and under- 

 parts blackish-brown, the feathers being bordered 

 with grey. Across the breast is a broad, curved 

 band or crescent of white, edged with a brownish 

 tint. The legs, toes, and claws are brownish-black. 



The female is browner and greyer, and the 

 crescent on her breast much duller and less denned. 



Situation and Locality. In clefts and on ledges 

 of rock, steep banks, holes in stone walls, barns, 

 limekilns, and sometimes quite on the ground. In 

 the summer of 1907 I found a nest in an isolated 

 holly bush in Westmorland. It was some ten to 

 twelve feet from the " ground. In the mountain 



