TURDUS VISCIVORUS, Linn. 
MISTLE-TH RUSH. 
La grosse Grive, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 200 (1760). 
Turdus viscivorus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 991 (1766); Dresser, B. Eur. ii. p. 3, pl. i. (1871); 
Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 194 (1881); id. Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 207 (1883); Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Brit. B. part i. (1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 1 (1889); Sharpe, Handb. 
Brit. B. i. p. 267 (1894). 
La Drenne, D' Aubent. РІ. Enl. iv. pl. 489. 
La Draine, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 295 (1775). 
Missel-Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 16 (1783). 
Sylvia viscivora, Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 208 (1827). 
Jvocossyphus viscivorus, Kaup, Natürl. Syst. p. 145 (1829). 
Turdus major, Brehm, Vóg. Deutschl. p. 879 (1881). 
Turdus arboreus, Brehm, tom. cit. p. 380. 
Merula viscivora, Selby, Brit. Orn. i. p. 158 (1833). 
Turdus hodgsoni (nec Homeyer), Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 269 (1850). 
Turdus bonapartei, Cab. J. f. O. 1860, p. 188. 
Turdus viscivorus hodgsoni (nec Homeyer), Pleske, Mél. Biol. xiii. p. 292 (1892). 
T. caudá olivascenti-brunneá : maculis nigris gastrei triquetris : axillaribus albis: supercilio pallido nullo. 
Tug MISTLE-THRUSH is the largest of the olive-brown-tailed species of the genus Turdus, with 
fan-shaped black spots on the breast. It is distinguished, moreover, from the Red-wing and the 
Song-Thrush by its white axillaries, and from the former by the further want of the white eyebrow, 
in addition to the differently coloured flanks. 
It is а widely-distributed species in the Palearctic Region, and for many years the Mistle-Thrush 
of the Himalayas has been considered to be a different species and has generally been called Turdus 
hodgsoni of Homeyer. As has been pointed out by Seebohm, however (ашей, р. 29), the latter 
name is a synonym of Oreocincla mollissima, and could not be used for the Mistle-Thrush of 
Asia, even if the latter were distinct from its European relative. Тһе Himalayan bird is now 
generall admitted to be identical with the Mistle-Thrush of Europe, and all that Mr. Eugene 
Oates, the latest authority on the subject, could find in the way of difference between the two 
forms was that the Himalayan bird had a slightly longer bill and a wing generally over 
6 inches, whereas in European examples the wing is under 6 inches (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. 
p. 149). 
In the British Islands the Mistle-Thrush is generally distributed and has gradually extended 
its range, so that it nests at the present time as far north as Caithness and Sutherland and 
in most of the Hebrides. It has not yet been met with in the Shetlands and is only a straggler 
to thé Orkneys (Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 1). In Ireland, Mr. R. J. Ussher says, it breeds in 
every county, and is believed to be still increasing (Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. (3) iii. no. 8, p. 402). 
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