DAA, BIRDS. 
Naum. 70. (The Ring Ouzel). Feathers black, partly edged with 
white; the breast marked with a shield of the same colour. 
The high mountains in the south of Europe contain two species, 
the Merle de Roche; T. saxatilis, L.; Enl. 562; Naum. 73; and 
the Merle bleu; T. cyanus, L.; Enl. 250; Naum. 72, from which 
the Merle solitaire; TJ. solitarius, L., does not differ*. The 
first, which is most frequently found in the North, is the best 
known; it builds on inaccessible cliffs, in ruins, and sings well. 
The head and neck of the male are, of a blue ash colour, the back 
brown, rump white; beneath, and the tail, orange}. 
The name of Grives is given, in France, to those species, whose plum- 
age is what is termed in that country grivelé, that is to say, marked with 
small black or brown spots. There are four of them in Europe, all with 
brown backs and spotted breasts; they are singing birds, which live on 
insects and berries, migrate in large flocks, and whose flesh is an agree- 
able food. 
T. viscivorus, L.; La Drenne. (The Misle Thrush). Enl. 489; 
Frisch, xxv; Naum. 66,1. Is the largest; the underpart of its 
wings is white; it is extremely fond of the misletoe, and contributes 
to the dissemination of that parasitical plant. 
T. pilaris, L.; La Litorne, Enl. 490; Frisch, xxvi; Naum. 67, 
2. Which is chiefly distinguished from the Viscivorus by the ash 
colour on the top of its head and neck. 
T. musicus, L.; La Grive, properly so called, Enl. 406; Frisch, 
xxvii; Naum. 66, 2. Underpart of the wings yellow; the best 
songster of the four, and the one most commonly eaten. 
T. iliacus, L.; Le Mauvis, Enl. 51, Frisch, xxviii; Naum. 67, 
1, (The Mavis.) The smallest of the whole number; under part 
of the wings and flanks red f. 
The species of the genus Thrush, foreign to Europe, are very nu- 
merous. We will particularly notice 
T. polyglottus, L.; Catesb.xxvi. (The Mocking-Bird). From 
North America; ash-coloured above, paler beneath, with a white 
band on the wing. It is celebrated for the astonishing facility with 
which it imitates, on the instant, the notes of other birds, and even all 
kinds of sounds §. 
* Observation of Bonnelli. 
+ Itis possible, as is observed by Shaw, that it was by confounding it with the 
Siberian Jay, that Linnzus attributed to it the habits of a Harpy, and at one time 
calls it Corvus, and at another, Lanius infaustus. 
We may approximate to the sazatilis the Rocar, Vaill. Afr. 101 and 102—the Es- 
pionneur, Id. 108. 
The foreign species, allied to the Solitary Thrushes by their speckled plumage, 
are, Turdus manillensis, Enl. 636; probably the same as 7’. violaceus, Sonnerat, 2d 
Voy., pl. cviiii—T. eremita, Enl. 839.—T. varius, Horsfi—Myiothera Andromede, 
Tem. Col. 392. 
{ Two additional species have been taken, though very rarely, in Germany; the 
Thrush, with the back and flank spotted with red (T. naumanni), Naum. 68, and that 
with a black breast and throat (T. Bechsteinii), Naum. 69. 
§ The Litile Mocking. Bird (T. Orpheus), Edw. 78; Le Moqueur de St. Domingue 
(T. dominicus), Enl. 558, 1, are very closely allied to it, as well as the 7’. gilvus, 
Vieill. Am. 68. 
