160 PASSERES. TURDUS. OuzEL. 
The young are similar to the females; and the male birds do 
not acquire the perfect yellow bill, till after the second 
moult. 
Varieties. Varieties of a pure white, and of an ash-grey colour, with livid 
bill, and reddish irides, are sometimes met with. 
* Ring-Ouzel.—Turdus torquatus, Linn. 
PLATE 44. Fig. 2. 
Turdus torquatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 296. 23.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 832.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 343. 56. 
Merula Torquata, Briss. 2. p. 235. 12.—Raii, Syn. p. 65. A. 2. 
Le Merle a Plastron blanc, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 340. t. 31.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 516. 
male. 
Merle a Plastron, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 166. 
Ring-Drossel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 369. t. 4. Meyer, 'Tasschenb. 
Deut. v. 1. p. 198.—Frisch, t. 30. 
Ring-Ouzel, Br. Zool. 1. No. 110. t. 46.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 344. H.— 
Will. Angl. p. 194.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. p. 62._Lath. Syn. 3. p. 46. 49. 
—Id. Sup. p. 141.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Id. Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 
v.1.t. . p. 96.—Shaw’s Zool. 10. 227. t. 21. bad figure from Buffon. 
Provincial, Rock Ouzel, Tor Ouzel, Michaelmas Blackbird. 
Periodical © The periodical visits of this bird to cur coasts are contrary 
visitant. to others of its genus that migrate, viz. the fieldfare, redwing, 
and common thrush ; as it arrives in the spring, and imme- 
Haunts. diately resorts to the mountainous districts of England and 
Scotland, preferring those of the most stony and barren na- 
ture. In these situations it breeds, and rears its young.—The 
Nest, &c. nest is usually placed on some steep bank, supported by a 
projecting stunted bush, or a tuft of grass or heath ; some- 
times also in the cleft, or on the shelf of arock. Inform and 
texture it resembles that of the blackbird, and the eggs are 
very similar to those of the same bird, both in size and colour. 
Song. —Its song, which it utters perched on the top of some stone or 
the summit of a rock, is confined to a few clear and powerful 
notes, not unlike those of the missel-thrush. Like most of its 
tribe, it is of a shy disposition, and does not readily admit of 
a near approach, except during the period when its nest con- 
tains unfledged young; at which time it most strenuously 
