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beneath dirty white ; chin nearly white ; quills brown, edged with 

 rufous brown ; tail like the back ; legs grey. 



This inhabits some parts of Europe, on the Continent, but not 

 in England ; frequents marshy places, and is observed to run up the 

 reeds as Woodpeckers do the trees : is common in the southern parts 

 of Russia and Poland, also in the small Islands of the Vistula ; 

 making the nest on the mossy hillocks, among the reeds and rushes, 

 and laying five or six eggs ; the male is perpetually singing, whilst 

 the hen is sitting, hence has been called the Water Nightingale. 



In the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther, I observe a bird so nearly 

 like it, as to suppose it a Variety. The bill three quarters of an inch, 

 pale ash-colour, a trifle bent, with a few hairs at the base ; plumage 

 above pale rufous ash, or dark cream-colour ; quills and tail rather 

 darker, the last cuneiform, but not much so ; over the eye a white 

 trace; the under parts, from the chin, and upper tail coverts rufous 

 white ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits India. Sonnerat also met with it in the Philippine Isles. 

 Very like the Reed Warbler of Lewin, in his JVeiv-Holland Birds, 

 plate 4. 



12— THICK-BILLED THRUSH— Pl. lxxx. 



Turdus crassirostris, Ind. Orn. i. 335. Gin. Lin. i. 815. 



Thick-billed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 34. pl. 37. Cook's last Voy. i. 150. 



SIZE of the Missel Thrush ; length nine inches. Bill three quar- 

 ters of an inch, very stout for the Genus, and notched near the tip, 

 blackish, with a few bristles at the base ; irides pearl-coloured ; 

 upper parts of the plumage rufous brown ; sides of the head, and 

 all the upper parts dusky brown, verging to ash-colour about the 

 neck ; each feather marked down the shaft with a very pale rufous 

 streak as far as the breast, and from thence with a white one ; quills 



