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-ORD. Ill GEN. Il. OUZEL. 
SPE. HK RING OUZEL. 
Pl. 59. 
Turdus totquatus. Lin. Sy/t. I. p. 296. 
Le merle a collier. Bri. Orn. II. p. 235. 
This fpecies of ouzel is larger than the common black-bird, being in length 
eleven inches, in breadth feventeen. The bill is of a blackifh yellow ; the in- 
fide of the mouth yellow; on each fide of the mouth are a few briftles: eyes 
hazel: at a diftance the plumage appears black, but on a nearer examination 
each feather is foutid to be edged with grey or afh-colour: on the breaft is a 
large patch of white, pafling a little backwards on'each fide like a‘collar: the 
legs are brown. 
The female differs from the male in having the white patch on the breaft 
much lef$ obfervable, and in fome it is wholly wanting, which has oc- 
cafioned many to take it for a different {pecies, and accordingly it was called’ by 
old authors the rock ouzel. 
In the northern part of this kingdom it is met with only at the time of mi- 
gration, chiefly in the {pring feafon, in flocks of five or fix together. But in the 
northern parts of England it breeds, as it alfo does in Wales and Scotland. It 
builds on the fides of ftreams, in the banks, and lays five eggs, not unlike thofe 
of the black ouzel. See Pl. XIV. Fig. 3. 

