TION. 



410 REDWING THRUSH. Class II. 



they have only a disagreeable piping note, but 

 in Sweden, during the spring they sing very 

 finely, perching on the top of some tree among 

 the forests of maples. They build their nests 

 in hedges, and lay six bluish green eggs spotted 

 with black.* 

 Desciup- They have a very near resemblance to the 

 throstle, but are less, only weighing two ounces 

 and a quarter : their colors are much the same, 

 but the sides under the wings and the inner 

 coverts in this are of a reddish orange ; in the 

 throstle yellow : above each eye is a line of 

 yellowish white, beginning at the bill and pass- 

 ing towards the hind part of the head. The 

 vent feathers are white. 



Besides these three sorts of throstles, the 

 author of the Epitome of the art of husbandry f[ 

 mentions a fourth kind under the name of the 

 heath throstle, which he commends as far su- 

 perior to the others in its song : he says it is 

 the lest of any, and may be known by its dark 

 breast; that it builds its nest by some heath- 

 side, is very scarce, and Mill sing nine months 

 in the year. 



* Faun. Suec. sp. 218. 



f By J. B. gent, third edit. 1085. 



