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outer webs; the tail of twelve feathers; exteriors 

 tipped with white; the legs are yellowish brown. 



Weight 5oz. length 1 1 inches. 



The female lays 4 or 5 flesh coloured eggs, spotted 

 with blood red spots, in a nest composed of lichen 

 and coarse grass, and lined with wool. 



It is our largest singing bird. 



Mr. White of Selborne observed that in severe 

 snowy weather, the thrush genus, searched out and eat 

 the pungent root of the cuckoo-pint. (Arum macu- 

 latum.) 



C 2. MUSICUS. THROSTLE, MAVIS, OR THRUSH. 



T. supra griseo-fuscus, subtus albo rufescens maculis 

 nigricantibusvarius, remigibus basi interiors fer- 

 rugineis. Shaw. 



The bill is dusky ; the irides are hazel ; the head 

 and upper parts are yellowish brown; the throat, 

 neck, and sides are yellowish ; the breast and belly 

 are white, spotted with black ; inner coverts of the 

 wings dark orange ; the legs and mouth are yel- 

 low. 



Length 9-inches, 



The female lays 4 or 5 blue eggs, spotted with 

 black, in a nest, the outside of which is formed of 

 green moss and dried grass, and plastered within with 

 a mixture of rotten wood and cow dung, or clay. 



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