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ORD. III. GENUS HI. THRUSH. 
Bitt, ftraight, with a blunt ridge on the top, bending a little at the point, and 
flightly notched near the end of the upper mandible. 
Nosrrits, oval, naked, and half covered by a membrane. 
Toncue, flightly jagged at the end. 
SPECIES k MISSEL THRUSH. 
PL. 61. 
Turdus vifcivorus. Lin. Sy. I. p. 291. 
La groffe grive. Brif. Orn. II. p. 200. 
This fpecies is the largeft of the genus, being eleven. inches in length, fixteen 
and halfin breadth, and weighing near five ounces. The bill, which is fhorter 
and thicker than that of other thruthes, is of a dufky brown colour: eyes hazel: 
head, back, and fhoulders, of a deep olive brown: rump the fame, with a 
yellow tinge: wing coverts brown, the greater tipt and edged with white, the lef 
only tipt with it: quills dufky, but the lower part of the inner webs white: 
under part of the body white, tinged with yellow, which is moft obfervable on 
the cheeks and fides of the neck and breaft, and mottled with dufky black 
fpots: legs pale yellow. 
The female is much the fame, but lefs bright in colour. 
This is the largeft fong-bird we know, and begins to fing, fitting on the top 
of a high tree, very early, fometimes even with the commencement of the new 
year, in blowing, fhowery weather; whence it is called in Hampfhire the ftorm- 
cock. It feeds, like the other thrufhes, on infects, and the berries of the holly 
and miftletoe; and in fevere weather, when thefe fail, it {cratches out of the banks 
of hedges the roots of arum, or cuckoo pint. It builds a neft in low trees or 
bufhes, compofed of leaves, mofs, liverwort, &c., furnifhed within with withered 
grafs, and without with twigs, and lays four or five eggs, for which fee the lower 
figure in Pl, XIII. 

