86 Favourite Foreign Birds. 



parts are dark bluish-grey, but the head and back are 

 sky-blue ; the wings and tail are bluish-black, the 

 eyes brown, and the legs and feet black. 



The food should be identical with that recommended 

 for the preceding species, than which it is even more 

 expensive in this country. Habitat, Central Europe. 



Other members of the family, all exceedingly desir- 

 able as inmates of the soft-billed birds' aviary, are 

 THE GREY-WINGED BLACKBIRD, Turdus pcecilopterus, 

 from Cashmere; THE ORANGE-HEADED GROUND 

 THRUSH, GeociMa citrma ; THE SORRY THRUSH, 

 T. tristis, from Mexico; and THE BROWN THRUSH, 

 T. leucomelas, from South America. 



