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THE MISTLE-THRUSH. TURDUS VISCIVORUS. 



Turdus visdwrus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 391 (1766) ; Macg., 

 Br. B., ii., p. 114 (1839) ; Dresser, B. Eur.,'i., p. 3, pi. i 

 (1871) ; Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 258 (1872) ; Seeb., Cat. B. 

 Brit, Mus., v., p. 194 (1881) ; id. Br. B., i., p. 207 (1883); 

 B. O. U. List Br. B , p. i (1883) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Br, 

 B., pt. i. (1885); Saunders, Man., p. i (1889) ; Wyatt, Br. 

 B., pi. i., fig. 2 (1894). 



Adult Male. General colour above ashy-brown, the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts washed with ochraceous- 

 buff, the latter only on the margins ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater coverts darker brown, the for- 

 mer tipped, the latter edged with dull white, inclining to buff 

 on the inner greater coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, edged with ashy-whitish ; tail-feathers 

 light brown with ashy margins, all but the centre tail-feathers 

 with a white spot at the end of the inner web, increasing in 

 extent towards the outermost feather, where it is very large ; 

 head grey like the back ; lores and eyelid white ; feathers 

 below the eye and ear-coverts ochreous-buff, the feathers 

 tipped with black and forming a line on the upper ear-coverts; 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface of body clear ochreous-buff, 

 spotted with triangular tips to the feathers, forming a line 

 above and below the cheeks ; the throat scarcely spotted, and 

 the tips to the feathers of the breast and sides of body 

 rounded ; the lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 buffy-white without spots, the under tail-coverts edged with 

 dusky brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills 

 ashy below, white along the inner webs ; bill dark brown, yel- 

 lower at the base of the lower mandible ; feet and claws yel- 

 lowish or yellowish-brown ; iris dark brown. Total length, 

 10-5 inches; oilmen, 0-85; wing, 6'o ; tail, 4-0; tarsus, i'35. 



Adult Female. Similar to the male in plumage, but less 

 richly spotted. Total length, 10-5 inches ; wing, 5*85. 



Young. Not so largely spotted below ; the throat white with- 

 out spots ; upper parts streaked with buff centres to the 

 feathers, which have black tips ; the wing-coverts broadly 

 edged with buff, and having a triangular spot of the same 



