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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Song Gbrueb. 



THE Song Thrush (Turdus must'cus, Linnaeus) is generally 

 distributed throughout the British Isles. It is more or 

 less migratory in its habits, leaving in the late autumn 

 and returning in early spring. The adult is dark olive- 

 brown on the upper parts; eye -stripe, buff; quills and 

 wing -coverts, margined with deep yellowish -brown, and 

 there are buff tips to some of the feathers ; under parts, 

 buff, shading into white on belly; sides of throat, chest, 

 and remainder of body, profusely spotted and blotched 

 with dark brown ; irides, legs, and feet, pale brown ; bill, 

 dark brown. Length, about eight inches. 



