RING-OUZEL 



PASSERES. 



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TURDlDjE. 



TURDUS TORQUATUS, Linngeus*. 



THE RING-OUZEL. 



Turdus torquatus. 



THE RING-OUZEL is a summer-visitor to the British Islands, 

 arriving regularly in April ; and, passing without much delay, 

 over the enclosed and less hilly districts, it repairs to the 

 wilder and more mountainous parts of the country, where it 

 spends the summer, returning in September or October, when 

 it is seen in flocks, and often makes a longer stay. White 

 of Selborne, who took an especial interest in the appearance 

 of this bird, mentions that some were seen in the Forest 

 of Bere on the borders of Hampshire, at Christmas, 1770, a 

 season which had been marked by almost incessant rain from 

 the middle of October, but the occurrence of the Ring- Ouzel 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 296 (1766). 



