FIELDFARE THRUSH. 

 (Turd us pilaris.) 



Tv.fusco-rufescens, subtus nigricante varius, reciricibus nigris, 



extimc margine interiore apice albicantibus, capite uropygioque 



cano. 

 Brown-red Thrush, beneath varied with dusky, with the tail- 



feathers black, the outer one with the interior edge whitish 



at the tip ; head and rump hoary. 

 Turdus pilaris. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 291. 2. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



215. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 807. Briss. 2. 214. 5. Turt. Brit. 



Faun. 1. 35. 64. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 330. 11. 

 La Litorne, ou Tourdelle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 301. Buff. 



PI. Enl. 490. 



Turdus pilaris naevius. Briss. 2. 218. B. (var.) 

 Turdus pilaris leucocephalus. Briss. 2. 217. A. (var.) 

 Fieldfare, Feldefare, or Feltifer. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 106. 



Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 340. A. Albin. Birds. 1. 36. Leivin. 



Brit. Birds. 2. 60. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. Q9.Mont. Brit. 



Birds. 1. 



RATHER less than the Missel Thrush : weight 

 about four ounces : length ten inches : beak yel- 

 lowish, with the tip black : irides hazel : head and 

 hind part of the neck ash-colour, the former spotted 

 with black : the upper parts of the body and lesser 

 wing-coverts chesnut brown : quills dusky brown, 

 with pale margins : rump cinereous : the fore-part 

 of the neck, breast, and sides yellowish, streaked 

 with dusky : throat, belly, and vent white : tail 

 dusky black, the interior feathers varied with 

 cinereous : legs black. Brisson describes two 



