IN8ESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MISSEL THRUSH. 



197 

 MERULIDJE. 



THE MISSEL THRUSH. 



Turdus viscivorus. 



Turdus wsdvorus, Missel Thrush, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 401. 



MOXT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 117. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 64. 



Merula viscivora, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 158. 



Turdus viscivorus, ^ JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 98. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Merle Draine, TEMM.Man.d'Ornith.vol.i.p.l61. 



TURDUS. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate size, straight, convex 

 above ; point of the upper mandible compressed, notched, and slightly 

 curved downwards ; the gape furnished with a few hairs. Nostrils basal, 



