160 INSESSORES. MERULA. Fieldfare. 



Young The young, before the autumnal moult, have the head 



^^ ' and back part of the neck greyish white, more or less 



clouded with hair-brown. Lower part of the back and 

 rump the same. Upper part of the back and wing- 

 coverts hair-brown, the centres of the feathers yellowish- 

 white, and the tips of the coverts blackish-brown. 

 Greater coverts and quills brown, edged with yellowish- 

 brown, under parts yellowish- white, spotted with black- 

 ish-brown. Legs inclining to wine-yellow. 



It is subject to considerable variety, and is frequently- 

 found with the wings and tail white ; sometimes it is entirely 

 white, besides other variations of plumage enumerated by 

 Temminck. 



FIELDFARE. 



Mervla pilaris. 

 PLATE XLV. Fig. 1. 



Turdus pilaris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 291. 2 — Faun. Suec. No. 215 — Gtnel. Syst. 



1. p. 807 Lath. Ind. Omith. v. 1. p. 330. sp. 11 — Raii Syn. p. 64. A. 3. 



— Will. p. 38. t. 37 Briss. 2. p. 214. 5. 



La Litorne ou Tourdell, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 301 — Id. PI. Enl. 390. 



Merle Litorne, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 1C3. 



Wachholder-Drossel, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 145 — Id. Naturg. 



Deut. V. 3. p. 336 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 193 — Frisch. t. 2«. 



Fieldfare or Feldefare, Br. Zool. 1. No. 106 Arct. Zool. a. p. 320. A — 



Will. (Ang.) p. 188. t. 37 Albin. 1. t. 36 Lewhi's Br. Birds. 2. t. CO — 



Lath. Syn. 3. p. 24. 11 — Mont. Ornith. Diet — Haye's Br. Birds, t. 31 — 



Prdt. Cat. Dorset, p. 10 Bewick''s'&r. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 98 — Lotv's Fauna 



Oread, p. 56. 



Provincial, — Feltyfare, Fendyfare. 



Periodical The summer retreat, or polar migration of this bird, being 

 visitant. f^j,|.|^gj, towards the north than the utmost latitude of our 

 island, it becomes a periodical visitant with us, as a return to 

 warmer latitudes on the approach of autumn, or after it has 

 performed the duties attendant on the propagation of its spe- 

 cies. 



