INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MISSEL THRUSH. 



187 

 MERULIDJE. 



THE MISSEL THRUSH. 



Turdus viscivorus. 



Turdus viscivorus, Missel Thrush, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 401. 



MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 117. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 64. 



Merula viscivora, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 158. 



Turdus viscivorus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 98. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Merle Draine, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 161. 



TURDUS. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate size, straight, convex above ; 

 point of the upper mandible compressed, notched, and slightly curved downwards ; 

 the gape furnished with a few hairs. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly closed 



