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DESCRIPTION. 
PLace AND 
Manners. 
a ra Re oS 3 3Rt. 
Turdus vifcivorus, Lin. Sy i. p. 291. No 1.—Scop. ann. ie pe 1326 No 1936 
—Brun.65 N° 231 —Krame-, p. 361. 6.—Frifch. pl. 25. 
La Grofle Grive, Brif. orn. ii. p. zoo. N° 1. 
La Draine, Buf. off ili. p. 295. pl. 19. £. 1-— Pl. el. 489+ 
Turdus vifcivorus major, Raii Syn. p. 64. A. 1. 
Tordo, Olin. uccel. pl. in p. 25. 
Miffel Bird, or Shrite, Will. orm. p. 187-—Br. Zool. i, N° 105.—Albin. i. 
pl. 33-—rd. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
HIS, the largeft of the Tbrufh kind, is eleven inches in 
length, and weighs near five ounces. The bill is above an 
inch long; the colour dufky brown, with the bafe of the lower 
mandible and the gape yellow: irides hazel: the upper parts 
of the head, neck, and body, are of a greyifh brown, with a 
tinge of rufous on the lower part of the back and rump: the fides 
of the head and throat are yellowifh white, fpotted with brown ; 
from thence to the vent the fame, but marked with larger 
roundifh fpots of dufky black: the lower of the wing coverts 
tipped with white; the reft brown only: quills grey brown with 
pale edges: tail the fame; the three outer feathers tippcd with 
white : the legs are yellow: claws black. 
The female differs merely in not being of fo bright a colour 
as the male. ; 
This is a well-known bird, and inhabits Exgland the whole 
year, though in fome other parts of Europe is obferved to be 
migratory *, and perhaps confined to Europe alone: on the one 
hand, we hear of it in Sweden, Denmark, and the weftern parts of 
* About Carlile in Cumberland it is much lefs frequent than the Throfle ; 
and it is not quite clear that it remains there throughout the winter. Dr. 
Hey fham. 
10 Rufiia; 
