RING OUSEL. 
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A fine young male, shot in autumn on Shepperton Range, 
Middlesex, has the entire upper plumage so broadly edged 
with olive-grey that very little of the central part of each 
feather is visible. All the feathers of the wings are dark 
olive, edged with yellowish white ; the under plumage the 
same, edged with a fainter and narrower border. The chin 
is white; from thence to the crescent on the breast the fea¬ 
thers are black, bordered with yellowish white, giving a 
tessellated appearance. The crescent is brownish white, 
much obscured by a semi-lunar dusky line that each feather 
bears near the tip : the tail feathers as in the adult. This 
bird was unknown to the party who shot it, who was a person 
experienced in local ornithology ; a proof of its rarity in this 
part of the country. 
The German name of Drossel, which is in Germany com¬ 
mon to this and other species of the thrush tribe, such as 
ring-drossel, mistel-drossel, &c., we retain only as derived 
doubtless from our Saxon ancestors, in a local appellation of 
the song thrush, which is in many parts of the country called 
the throstle. 
The egg figured 52 is that of the Ring Ousel. 
