162 INSESSORES. MERULA. Song-Thrush. 



Plate 45. Fig. 1. A male bird, of the natural size. 

 General Bill deep ochreous-yellow, with the tips of the mandibles 

 tion. black. Irides dark brown. Crown of the head, ear- 



coverts, and nape of the neck, pearl-grey ; the former 

 having dark spots. Upper part of the back and wing- 

 coverts deep umber-brown, margined paler. Lower part 

 of the back and rump pearl-grey. Quills blackish-brown, 

 edged paler. Tail black. Chin, middle of the belly, 

 and under tail-coverts, white. Sides of the neck, and 

 breast, ochreous-yellow, with oblong blackish-brown 

 spots, nearly confluent, and forming a patch on the side 

 of the breast. Sides and flanks with large triangular 

 blackish-brown spots. Legs and claws blackish- brown. 

 The head of the female is more clouded with brown ; the 

 lower part of the back yellowish-grey ; and the legs 

 paler than in the male bird. 



SONG-THRUSH. 



Merula music a. 

 PLATE XLV. Fig. 2. 



Turdus musiciis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 292. 2 — Gmel Syst. 1. p. 809 — Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 327 — ^a" Syn. p. 64. A. 2 — Will. p. 138. 37- 

 Turdus minor, Briss. 2. p. 205. 2. 

 I.a Grive, Btiff. Ois. v. 3. p. 280 — Id. PI. Enl. 406. 

 Merl Grive, Temm. Man. d'Omith. v. 1. p. 164. 

 Sing-Drossel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 349 — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. p. 195 Frisch. Vdg. t. 27- f. 1. 



Throstle or Song-Thrush, Br. Zool. 1. No. 107 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 342 — 



Albin. 1. t. 34 Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 58 — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 18. 2 — Id. 



Sup. p. 139 Mont. Ornith. Diet — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 198 — Pult. Cat. 



Dorset, p. 10 BeivicK's Br. Birds, 1. p. 100 — Low's Fau. Oread, p. 57- 



—Shaw's Zool. V. 10. p. 174. 



Provincial — Throstle Coek, Mavis, Grey Bird. 



This well known songster, whose sweetly variable notes 

 enliven our groves from the commencement of spring to the 

 close of summer, is indigenous in Britain, as the greater part 



