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brunneis, anguste fulvescente marginatis : regione auriculari brumiea indistincte fulvo lineata : gutture 

 medio fulvo : genis cum colli lateribus et corpore reliquo subtus nigricantibus, ubique fulvescente vel 

 albido transversim fasciatis : subalaribus et subcaudalibus nigricantibus, medialiter fulvo lineatis. 



Nestling. Covered down tbe crown and centre of tbe back with olive-brown feathers, with tufts of fulvous 

 down on the sides of the head, lowest scapulars, and lower part of the back and rump ; a few of the 

 feathers of the scapulars and middle of the back narrowly lined down the centre with buff, which is 

 much more apparent on the wing-coverts, being very broad and distinct on the lesser coverts, the 

 greater ones being margined with buff at the tip; all the sides of the body are more or less bare, with 

 a patch of feathers growing on the sides of the lower back and rump, brown in colour, mottled with 

 transverse bars of buff; on the under surface, the sides of the neck, a patch on the chest, and the flanks 

 are bare ; the tiny feathers on the throat are buff, those on the breast blackish, and those on the belly 

 brown, crossed with bars of fulvous. 



The very interesting specimen described above is contained in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman, and was procured in South Norway on the 12th of July, 18GG, by Mr. J. Baker. These 

 gentlemen have a very good series of young birds in the different stages of nestling plumage; and from 

 one of their specimens we proceed to describe the next stage, which is that of a young bird able to fly. 



Young on /caving the nest. Above dark brown, with dull and almost obsolete edgings of ochreous brown on 

 the head and upper part of the back, these margins being of a paler and more decided ochre on the 

 lower back and rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts edged with ochreous buff, the greater coverts 

 externally margined with hoary white, shading into buff towards the tip; quills dark brown, the outer 

 margin of the primaries hoary white, those of the inner secondaries tinged with buff; tail blackish 

 brown, the feathers pointed at the tips; sides of the face dark brown, washed with ochreous brown like 

 the top of the head, the cheeks slightly varied with pale fulvous; throat fulvous, longitudinally marked 

 with dark brown ; breast dark brown, some of the feathers narrowly margined with buff, causing a 

 slight variation in the plumage; rest of the under surface of the body dark brown, mottled all over with 

 spots of whitish and buff margins to the feathers; uuder tail-coverts dark brown, with a broad shaft- 

 stripe and tip of whitish on each feather; under wing-coverts greyish, mottled with dark brown ; bill 

 horn-brown, with yellow skin at the gape; legs pale fleshy brown. 



Obs. The young Ring-Ouzels seem to vary very much, especially with regard to the buff streaks down the 

 centre of the dorsal feathers, characteristic of young Thrushes. In some of the young specimens 

 belonging to Messrs. Salvin and Godman they have quite disappeared on the back, and on the wing- 

 coverts they are a little more than a triangular spot at the tip of each feather. In the specimen of the 

 young bird figured by us, and for which we are indebted to our friend Mr. Henry Seebohm, of Sheffield, 

 it will be noticed that these shaft-stripes are very distinct; yet the bird is, if any thing, older than any 

 of the Norwegian examples above referred to. 



We have received from Herr \V. Schliiter, of Halle, a naturalist to whose ready assistance we owe the 

 opportunities of describing many a rare bird, a young female of the Ring-Ouzel, evidently in its first 

 winter plumage, of which we add a full description, as we cannot find any notice of this curious livery 

 in any work we have examined. 



Young Female in first winter. Above pale chocolate-brown, the feathers of the upper surface edged with 

 dull yellowish olive, these margins being plainer and more distinct on the rump and upper t ail- coverts ; 

 forehead and over the eye fulvous brown; ear-coverts uniform with the back of the head, distinctly 

 washed with the same olive-colour; wing-coverts exactly like the back, the least ones margined in 

 the same manner, the median coverts tipped with buffy white, and the greater coverts very distinctly 



