248 MERULIM. 



brown ; on the back are some large white spots edged with 

 brown ; throat and sides of the neck pure white, some of 

 the feathers occasionally varied with ash-brown ; all the 

 other under parts reddish white, with fine transverse lines 

 at the end of each feather ; tail light bay, the two middle 

 feathers ash brown. 



A young bird of the year, killed near Geneva in July, 

 1850, kindly lent to me for this work by Captain G. J. 

 Johnson, formerly of the Guards, has all the upper parts 

 light ash brown, each feather terminated with a spot of 

 greyish white. Quill-feathers tipped with huffy white: 

 wing-coverts edged with grey and tipped with buffy white ; 

 tail-feathers red ; the two in the middle black in the centre ; 

 under part of the body something like that of the adult 

 female, but more varied with white, which is again inter- 

 sected with brown lines. 



The vignette represents the form of the breast-bone of 

 the Blackbird. 



