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156 PASSERES. TURDUS. Tarusu. 
It is placed in thorn-bushes or young trees, sometimes on 
the stump, or against the side of a tree, particularly of one 
embraced by ivy. The eggs are four or five in number, and 
their colour is bluish-green*~Insects and worms compose the 
food of the Thrush during the summer, and the animal that 
inhabits the Helix nemoralis is also a favourite repast. _ For 
this purpose, it breaks the shell by repeated strokes upon a 
stone; and numerous remains of these -shells may be seen 
around particular selected stones, generally on some pathway 
or bare spot of earth, where these birds and their congeners 
abound. -As summer advances, it approaches our gardens, 
feeding with avidity upon all the smaller sorts of fruit; and, 
when these fail, upon the approach of winter, it attacks the 
mountain-ash and other wild berries, which, as I have before 
observed, constitute its chief support. 
Priate 45. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
The head and upper parts yellowish-brown, with a tinge of 
oil-green. Greater wing-coverts margined with pale 
orange. Quills and tail brown, edged with oil-green. 
Sides of the neck, and upper part of the breast pale 
ochreous-yellow, with arrow-shaped brownish-black spots. 
Threat pure white. Middle of the belly and the flanks 
white, with blackish-brown spots. Under wing-coverts 
pale reddish-orange. Legs wood-brown. Bill blackish- 
brown. The base of the under mandible straw-yellow. 
The female is very similar to the male bird in plumage, but 
has less of the yellow upon the neck and breast. Vari- 
ties of a perfect white, or of white streaked with brown 
sometimes occur. 
Redwing.—Turdus Iliacus, Linn. 
PLATE 45. Fig. 3. 
Turdus Iliacus, Linn. Syst. 1. 292. 3.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 808. sp. 3.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 329. 7..-Raii, Syn. p. 64. A. 4.—Will. p. 139.— 
Briss. 2. p. 208.3. t. 20. f. 1. 
