160 INSESSORES, MERULA. FIELDFARE. 



Young The young, before the autumnal moult, have the head 

 and back part of the neck greyish white, more or less 

 clouded with hair-brown. Lower part of the back and 

 rump the same. Upper part of the back and wing- 

 coverts hair-brown, the centres of the feathers yellowish- 

 white, and the tips of the coverts blackish-brown. 

 Greater coverts and quills brown, edged with yellowish- 

 brown, under parts yellowish- white, spotted with black- 

 ish-brown. Legs inclining to wine-yellow. 



It is subject to considerable variety, and is frequently 

 found with the wings and tail white ; sometimes it is entirely 

 white, besides other variations of plumage enumerated by 

 TEMMINCK. 



FIELDFARE. 



MERULA PILARIS. 

 PLATE XLV. FIG. 1. 



Turdus pilaris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 291. 2 Faun. Suec. No. 215 Gmel Syst. 



1. p. 807 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 330. sp. 11 Rail Syn. p. 64. A. 3. 



Will. p. 38. t. 37 Briss. 2. p. 214. 5. 



La Litorne ou Tourdell, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 301 Id. PI. Enl. 390. 



Merle Litorne, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 1G3. 



Wachholder-Drossel, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 145 Id. Naturg. 



Deut. v. 3. p. 336 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 193. Frisch. t. 26. 

 Fieldfare or Feldefare, Br. Zool. 1. No. 106 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 320. A 



Will. (Ang.)p. 188. t. 37 Albin. 1. t. 36 Lewies Br. Birds. 2. t. 60 



Lath. Syn. 3. p. 24. 11 Mont. Ornith. Diet Hayes~Rr. Birds, t. 31 



Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 10 BewicWs Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 98 Low's Fauna 



Oread, p. 56. 



PROVIN CIAL, Feltyfare, Fendyfare. 



Periodical THE summer retreat, or polar migration of this bird, being 

 farther towards the north than the utmost latitude of our 

 island, it becomes a periodical visitant with us, as a return to 

 warmer latitudes on the approach of autumn, or after it has 

 performed the duties attendant on the propagation of its spe- 

 cies. 



