General 
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Young 
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Varieties. 
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PASSERES. TURDUS. FIeELDFARE. 
Puate 44. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Bill blackish-brown ; the base of the under mandible ochre- 
yellow. Irides brown. Head and upper parts of the 
body light hair-brown, passing into oil-green upon the 
rump. Greater wing-coverts and quills dark hair-brown, 
margined with ash-grey and greyish-white. Tail deep 
ash-grey, the outer feathers being tipped with white, and 
the inner web of the outermost feather also white. 
Throat, chin, and cheeks white, with triangular blackish- 
brown spots. 
Breast, belly, and vent, yellowish-white, passing into straw- 
yellow, with numerous blackish-brown spots on the flanks 
and under tail-coverts. Feathers of the tibia white. 
Legs pale wood-brown. 
The female is similar in plumage to the male bird. 
The young, before the autumnal moult, have the head and 
back part of the neck greyish-white, more or less clouded 
with hair-brown. | 
Lower part of the back and rump the same. Upper part of 
the back and wing-coverts hair-brown, the centres of the 
feathers yellowish-white, and the tips of the coverts black- 
ish-brown, Greater coverts and quills brown, edged 
with yellowish-brown, under parts yellowish-white, spot- 
ted with blackish-brown. Legs inclining to wine-yellow. 
It is subject to considerable variety, and is frequently found 
. with the wings and tail white; sometimes it is entirely white ; 
besides other variations of plumage enumerated by TxEm- 
MINCK. 
v Fieldfare.—Turdus pilaris, Linn. 
PLATE 45. Fig. 1. 
Turdus pilaris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 291. 2.—Faun. Suec. No. 215.—Gmel. Syst. 
1. p. 807.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 330. sp. 11.—Raii, Syn. p. 64. A. 3. 
— Will. p. 38. t. 37.—Briss. 2. p. 214. 5. 
La Litorne ou Tourdell, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 301.—Zd. Pl. Enl. 490. 
Merle Litorne, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 163. 
