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OF DI te GENK HE ‘Fu Bas. 
SPE. IV. -RED-WING. 
Ph 64! 
Turdus iliacus. Lin. Syf. I. p. 290. 
Le-mauvis. Brif. Orn. II. p. 208. 
This fpecies meafures about eight inches in length, and weighs two ounces 
and a quarter. The bill is blackifh, with a dufky white bafe: eyes hazel: the 
general colour of the plumage not very unlike that of the fong thrufh; but the 
upper parts of the body are of a deeper brown: the fides of the body, and under 
parts of the wings, are of a reddith orange; it has a yellowifh white ftreak over 
the eye, and a dufky patch under it; and the black fpots on the lower parts of 
the body are more oblong. 
“This is a common bird in Sweden, and other colder parts of the continent of 
Europe, where it is faid to make its neft on fome low bufh, in the manner of 
the fong-thruth, and to lay about fix blue-green eggs, fpotted with black. With 
us it is a bird of paflage, coming in vaft flocks into this kingdom at the approach 
of winter, a few days before the fieldfare, and quitting it in the fpring. 

