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MERULID^. 
iris is dark-brown ; the eye-lid, inside and corners of tlie 
mouth, yellow, which in the spring approach to orange. The 
beak is rich yellow in summer, with a black tip; in winter 
it is tinged with brown. The legs are dark-brown. 
In the female the colours are less pure. 
The Fieldfare is about ten inches in length ; some measure 
more; the wing measures, from carpus to tip, five inches 
and a half; the tail is four inches and a quarter long, and 
the wings reach nearly half-way down it when closed : the 
tarsus measures one inch four lines, the middle toe one inch 
three lines, the hinder, nine lines; the claws are large in 
proportion, particularly the hinder. 
The egg No, 48 belongs to the Fieldfare. 
