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THE SOXG THRUSH. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Tins species is eight inches and a half long, of which the 

 tail occupies three inches and a half; the beak is nine lines 

 long, horny-brown beneath, and from the middle to the base, 

 yellow; the irides nut-brown; the feet pale lead-color, one 

 inch high; the whole of the upper part of the body olive- 

 brown ; the throat whitish-yellow, with a black stripe extend- 

 ing down its sides; the sides of the neck and breast, pale 

 rcdush-yellow, with numerous dark-brown, heart-shaped 

 spots; the abdomen white, with oval dark-brown spots; the 

 inside coverts bright 'orange-yellow; the pinion feathers grey- 

 brown ; the tail fiuithcrs the same. 



THK sova nun-Kit. 



In the female, the two black lines of the throat consist ot 

 small stripes, and the breast is pale yellowish-white. 



FOOD AND MANAGEMENT. 



THE food of the song thrush, in a state of liberty, consists 

 generally of earth worms, but in autumn they cat berries of all 

 kinds. Earth worms constitute their chief sustenance, with 

 which they also feed their young. They are easily fed in con- 

 finement, and the universal paste is an agreeable delicacy to 

 them. Barley meal, or merely wheat bran, wetted with waier 

 is sufficient to nourish them. But to get them into a state fit 

 fv>r song, they must have a more generous diet, such as roll, 



