

RING THRUSH. 

 (Turdus torquatus.) 



Tu. nigricans, torque aibo, rostrojlaveseente. 



Dusky Thrush, with a white collar, and yellowish beak. 



Turdus torquatus. Lin. Sytt. Xat. 1. 296.23. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



221. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 832. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.343.56. 

 Merula torquata. Briss. 2. 235. 12. 

 Le Merle a plastron blanc. Buff: Hist. Xat. Ois. 3. 340. 31. 



Buff. PL Enl. 5 16. male. 182. young bird. 

 Ring Ouzel. Pen. Brit. Zool. HO. t. 46. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 



344. n. Will. 194. Lewm. Brit. Birds. 2. 62. Bewick. 



Brit. Birds. 1. Q2. Albin. Birds. 1. 3g. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 



46.49- Lath. Sup. 141. Don. Brit. Birds. 2. Mont. Sup. 



Mont. Brit. Birds. 3. 6l. 



THE description of this bird in the Supplement 

 to the Ornithological Dictionary appears to be the 

 most correct of any I have seen, therefore I shall 

 transcribe it as it is there written : " It weighs full 

 four ounces, and is eleven inches in length : the 

 beak is partly orange yellow, especially the under 

 mandible all but the tip ; the point and the base 

 of the upper mandible more dusky: irides dark 

 hazel : the whole upper part of the bird is black, 

 with scarcely any grey on the margins of the fea- 

 thers: tail also black: the quills and wing-coverts 

 dusky, more or less bordered with pale grey, most 

 so on the secondaries, .and their larger coverts: 

 the under parts black, with cinereous edges to 

 the feathers on the body and under tail-coverts: 

 gorget pure white : under wing-coverts pale brown, 



