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SOLITARY 
THR, 
DESCRIPTION. 
FEMALE. 
PLACE AND 
MANNERS. 
aes RY OWL See 
This bird is found in the ifle of Candia, Dalmatia, and parts 
between, moft of the Archipelagic ifles *, and perhaps thofe of the 
Mediterranean, fince Edwards mentions its being found at Gid- 
rvaltar ; from whence alfo I have one now in my collection. 
Le Solitaire, Brif. or. ii. p. 268. N® 30. 
Le Merle Solitaire, Buf. o#/. ill. p..358. 
Paffera Solitaria, Olin. uccel. p. 14. 
Paffer Solitarius, Razz Syx. p. 66. 4. 
Solitary Sparrow, Will. orn. ps tg. te 36. 37- 
Lev. Mu. 3 
ESS than a Blackbird: length eight or nine inches: Bill 
brown, and bent at the tip: infide of the mouth yellow: 
irides orange: the general colour of the plumage brown, marked 
with fmall whitifh fpots: the fides of the head, throat, neck, 
breaft, and upper wing coverts, have a tinge of blue: rump, and 
under tail coverts, plain brown, as are the quills: the tail black- 
ifh: legs brown. 
The female is brown, without the leaft tinge of blue; and the 
fpots, which are moft numerous on the breaft, are of a dirty yel~ 
lowifh colour: quills and tail brown. 
This is frequent in France, Italy, the ifles of the Mediterra- 
neon and Archipelago, and other parts; where it is not only 
efteemed for its fong, but held in veneration by moft people, fo 
as to think it almoft facrilege to take the neft, or kill the 
bird. 
It frequents mountainous and rocky places, and is always 
® Kolben mentions a blue bird at the Cape of Good Hope, which is of the fize of 
a Starling ; but the bill, according to him, is between three and four inches in 
length. I fhould therefore hefitate to pronounce this our Blue Thrufh; feem- 
ing more ‘allied to our Black-capped King-Fifher, i. p. 624.— See Hif?. Cap. 
i Pe 152. 
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