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and upper parts black, glossed with purple and 

 green ; the feathers on the neck are long and pointed; 

 the whole plumage except the throat is marked with 

 yellow spots ; the tail has twelve feathers ; the legs 

 and feet brown. 



These birds vary much according to age ; the 

 young so little resemble the parent bird as to have 

 been described by Montagu as the turdus solitarius, 

 or solitary thrush. 



The female lays 4 or 5 light blue eggs, in a nest 

 composed of dry grass, &c. 



GENUS XVI. 

 TURDUS. 



Bill nearly straight, upper mandible notched, and 

 bent at the apex ; mouth furnished with a few slen- 

 der hairs at the corners. 



1. VISCIVORUS 1 . MISSEL THRUSH, OR STORM 



COCK. 



T. supra, griseo-fuscus, subtus albo-flavicans maculis 

 nigricantibus varius, rectricibus tribus extimis 

 albo terminatis. Shaw. 



The bill is dusky ; the irides are hazel ; plumage 

 light brown above ; beneath yellowish white, with 

 dark spots; the quills are brown, cinereous on the 



