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PASSER Kb. 



TURDID/E. 



TVRI>II)J<: 



MONTICOLA SAXATILIS (Linnaeus* ). 



THE ROCK- THRUSH. 



Petrocincla saxatilis. 



MONTICOLA, F. Boie^. Bill stout, straight, the ridge arched towards the 

 point. Nostrils basal, round, partly covered with hairs. Wings moderate ; the 

 first quill very short, the second a little shorter than the third, which is longest. 

 Feet of moderate size, stout. Tail short and even. 



THE specimen of the Rock-Thrush figured above, was ob- 

 tained on the 19th of May, 1843, by Mr. Joseph Trigg, who 

 shot it at Therfield in Hertfordshire, while it was sitting 

 on an ash-tree. I saw it before it was skinned by Mr. John 

 Norman of Royston, and received the first notice of the occur- 

 rence from my friend Mr. Thomas Wortham, whose influence 



* Turdus Mtxatilis, Linmeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 294 (1766). 

 f Isis, 1822, p. 552. 



