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about Afrachan, and from thence all along the Volga *, We 
hear of it in Switzerland and Lapland}, but is iaid never to ex- 
ceed the bounds of the.latter. 
It is a fcarce bird in refpect to England, one being only now and 
then met with. Edwards mentions two inftances; to which we 
can add one, that was fhot at Grantham, in Lincolufbire, now in 
poffeffion of Sir Fofeph Banks; as alfo the affurance of one or 
more being fhot almoft every feafon about Orm/kirk in Lancafbire. 
It is more frequent in France, as it is often met with in Bur- 
gundy, in its paffage to other parts; and is mentioned as common 
to Italy by Aldrovandus t. 
Turdus cyanus, Liz. Sy. i. p. 296. N® 23. 
Le Merle bleu, Buf. off. iii. p. 355. pl. 24.—Brif. orn. iis p. 282. N° 37. 
Le Merle folitaire femelle d’Italie, P/. en/. 250. (female). 
Cyanos, feu Czrulea avis Belloni, Raii Syne p. 66. N° 5.—Willl, orn. ps 1920 
Indian Mock-bird, zd. p. 66. N°6? 
Solitary Sparrow, Edw. pl. 18. (male). 
Lev. Muf. 
HIS is fomewhat lefs than a Blackbird: JIength eight 
*"" inches. Bill fourteen lines, hooked at the tip; colour of it 
blackith: the infide of the mouth and eye-lids orange: the irides 
dull hazel: the plumage of a cinereous blue, but each feather is 
marked near the end with a brown band, and the very tip white : 
the quills and tail are dufky, edged with cinereous blue: the legs 
dufky. 
The female is likewife blue, but much inclined to afh-colour, 
and beneath tranfverfely waved with this laft colour and 
black. 
* See Decouv. Ruf vol. i. 157.—il. 146. &c. 
+ Linneus, See allo dmen. Acad, vol. iv. N° 594. t Hef, des oif. 
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