344 ROSE-COLORED THRUSH, AND RING-OUZEL; 



,G. Rose-colored Ouzel, 5/-. ZW.ii. App. p. 627. 3vo._4to. tab. v. 



Turdus rofeiis. Faun. Suec. N° zig.—Will. Orn. 194 — De Buffon, iii. J^S. tab. xxii. 

 — PI. Enl. zt^l. — Latham, iii. 50. 



■'H. With a crefted head : head, neck, wings, and tail, black, 

 glolTed with variable purple, blue, and green : breaft, belly, 

 back, and lefler coyerts of the wings, of a fine rofe- color. Size of 

 a Stare. 



Linnaus, on the authority of Mr. Adkrheim, fays it is found in 

 Lapland. Has been fhot in a garden at Chejier ; and twice befides 

 near London. Is migratory. I cannot difcover its breeding-place in 

 Europe. Is found during fummer about Aleppo, where it is called, 

 from its food, the Locuft-bird *. 



Appears annually in great flocks about the river I)on: and in 

 Sibiria about the Irtijh, where there are abundance of Locufts, and 

 where it breeds between the rocks. 



H. RiNG-OuzEL, Br. Zool. I. N° no. 

 Turdus torquatus. Faun. Suec. N° 221. 



Ring-troft, Norvegio, Brumich, N° 237. — De Buffan, iii. 34.0. — Latham, iii. 46. — 

 Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



^H. With wings and tail black : upper part of the body duHiy; 

 lower part the fame, edged with afli-color : breaft marked v/ith 

 a white crefcent. Length eleven inches, 



Inhabits Europe as high as Lapmark ■\. Is not found in Rujfia 

 and Sibiria : is, in the fouth of England, and in France, an errant 

 pafTenger, for a week or two, to other countries : in alpine parts, 

 refident. Is met with about yiount Caucafus, and in Perfta. 



Belon % fays, that in his time they fwarmed fo in their feafon 

 about Embrun, that the hofts were ufed to treat their guefts with 

 them inftead of other game. We are told by the Count de Buffon, 

 that thty build their nefts on the ground at the foot of fome bufh j 

 from which they are called Merles 'Terriers. 



* RuJJel's Aleppo, "JO. f Gjelavaslgo L»//o«««, — Leems, 260, % Oj/eaux, ^ig. 



Blackbird, 



