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rostral bristles; wings rather long, with the first quill 

 very short, the third longest ; tail short, even or slightly 

 emaginate. 



The species of this genus, which belongs as much to 

 the Saxicolinae as to the Turdinse, inhabit the rocky and 

 stony parts of the mountainous districts of the Medi- 

 terranean, as well as the Tyrol, Switzerland, France, 

 and Germany. They feed on insects and berries, and 

 resemble the Saxicolse in their habits. 



327. PETROCINCLA SAXATILIS. COMMON ROCK-THRUSH. 



Male, with the head and neck all round greyish-blue ; 

 anterior part of the back similar, scapulars tinged . with 

 brown ; the rest of the back white, upper tail-coverts dark- 

 brown ; wings and two middle tail-feathers dark-brown, 

 the rest of the tail-feathers and the lower part of the body 

 light chestnut-red. The female, according to M. Tercf- 

 minck, "has all the upper parts of a dull-brown ; on the 

 back some large whitish spots bordered with brown ; the 

 throat and sides of the neck of a pure white, but usually 

 the feathers edged with greying-brown ; all the other lower 

 parts reddish-white, with fine transverse lines at the end of 

 each feather ; tail of a light brownish-red, the two middle 

 feathers greyish -brown. 



Male, 8, . ., 4|f . 



The specimen of this beautiful bird, figured and described 

 by Mr. Yarrell, he informs us, " was obtained on the 19th of 

 IVlay 1843, by Mr. Joseph Trigg, who shot it at Therfield, 

 near Royston, in Hertfordshire, while it was sitting on an 

 ash tree* in the evening." According to Temmincfc, this 

 species frequents the highest rocky mountains, and is met 

 with in Switzerland, the Tyrol, Hungary, Turkey, the Archi- 

 pelago, the Appenines, Alps, and Pyrenees ; more rarely 

 along the coasts of the Mediterranean ; at intervals, on the 

 Volga, and other high mountains in France ; more rarely, 

 in Germany. It feeds on insects and berries, nestles in the 

 clefts of crags or under fragments of rocks, and lays four 

 greenish-blue eggs. 



Turdus saxatilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 294. Turdus saxa- 

 tilis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. i. 336. Turdus saxatilis, Temm. 

 Man. d'Ornith. i. 172. Petrocincla saxatilis, viz. Yarrell, 

 Brit. Birds, append. 18. 



