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LABRADOR 
THR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
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OUZEL. 
DescREPTION. 
FEMALEe 
T H RU S H. 
This is faid to inhabit America *, and is probably a variety 
of the others. 
ENGT Height inches and a half. Bill ftrait, a very little 
‘notch at the tip; one inch long, and black : general colour 
of the plumage a gloffy fhining black, with a variable blue 
and green tinge: tail three inches three quarters in length: legs 
black : hind toe long, and the claw very ftout. 
From Labrador, Inthe collection of Sir Fofeph Banks. 
‘Turdus torquatus, Lin. Sy. i. p. 296. N° 23.—Faun. Suec. 221.—Scop. anni, 
p- 198.—Muller N° 242.—Brun. N° 237.—Kram. p. 360. N° 4.— 
Frifeh. te 30. 
Le Merle a Collier, Brifi orn. ii. p. 235. N° 12. 
a plaftron blanc, Buf. oi/. iii. p. 340. pl. 31.—P/, enl. 516. 
Merule congener, Raii Syx. p. 67. N° 12,—Will. orn. p. 195. 
Ring Ouzel, or Amfel, Rati Syn. p. 65. A. 2.—Will. orn. p. 194. my 
bin. i. pl. 39.—Br. Zool. i. N° 110. pl. 46.—<ArG. Zool, 
Br, Muf. Lev. Muf. 
N fize this rather exceeds a Blackbird: length eleven inches. 
Bill blackifh: infide of the mouth yellow: irides hazel. Ata 
diftance this bird appears of a dull black, but on infpection each 
feather is found to be margined with grey or afh-colour: on the 
breaft is a large patch of white, paffing a little backwards like a 
collar: the legs are brown. 
The female differs in having the white crefcent on the breaft 
much lefs confpicuous, and in fome birds quite wanting ; which 
* Probably the warmer parts of it ; as it was firft defcribed by Fewillée, whofe 
obfervations were confined to South America and the We? Indies. See Feuill. 
OL/, Fourn. p. 125. ed. 1725. 
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