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in the North, is the best known; it nestles 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 whites; beneath, 
and the tail, orange.(1) 
The name of Grives is given, in France, to those species, whose 
plumage is what is termed in that country grivelé, that is to say, 
marked with small black or brown spots. here 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 agreeable food. 
T. viscivorus, L.; La Drenne. (The Missle 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.(2) 
The species of the genus Thrush, foreign to Europe, are very 
numerous. We will particularly notice 
T. polyglottus, L.; Catesb. xxvi. (The Mocking-Bird.) From 
North America; ash coloured above, paler beneath, with a white 
band onthe wing. It is celebrated for the astonishing facility 
with which it imitates the notes of other birds, and even all 
kinds of sounds.(3) 
(1) It is 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. J 
We may approximate to the saxatilis the Rocar, Vaill. Afr. 101 and 102 ;—the 
Espionneur, 1d. 103. 7 
The other 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. cviii;—Z’ eremita, Enl. 339;—T. varius, Horsf.;—Myiothera Androme- 
dz, Tem. Col. $92. 
(2) Two additional species have been taken, though very arelaet in Germany; 
the Thrush, with the back und flank spotted with red (T. Naumanni), Nae 68, 
and that with a black breast and throat (T. Bechsteinii), Naum. 69. 
(3) The Little Mocking-bird, (T. orpheus), Edw.,78 ; Le Moqueur de St Domingue, 
(T. dominicus), En]. 558, 1, are very closely allied ts it, as wellas the T. gilvus, 
Vieill. Am. 68. 
