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ham, in Lincolnshire; and it is said that one or more has been killed, 

 almost every season, about Ormskirk, in Lancashire. Dr. Lamb 

 informed me of this bird having been shot near Newbury, in 1805, 

 and in 1814, rive were seen in a willow bed near the same place. 



It is more frequent in France, being often met with in Burgundy, 

 in its passage to other parts. 



26— BLUE THRUSH. 



Turdus cyanus, Tud. Or n. i. 345. Lin. i. 296. Gm. Lin. i. 834. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 



p. 94. Id. Ed. ii. p. 175. 

 — — — plumbeus, Faun. Arag. 84. 

 — — solitarius, Klein, Stem. 11. 1. 13. f. 3. a — »d. 

 Merula caerulea, Bris. ii. 282 Id. Svo. i. 236. Buf. iii. 355. pi. 24. 

 Merle solitaire, PI. enl. 250.— female. Cett. Uc. Sard. 178. 

 Die blaue Merle, Naturf. xvii. s. 84. 



Cyanos, seu caerulea avis, Raii, 66. 5. 6. Will. 141. 142. 

 Indian Mock Bird, Will. Engl. p. 192. 

 Solitary Sparrow, Edw. pi. 18. — male. 

 Blue Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 51. Id. Sup. 142. Kolb. Cap. Engl. ii. 152 ? Shaw's 



Zool. x. 224. 



THIS is somewhat less than a Blackbird; length eight inches. 

 Bill fourteen lines, hooked at the tip, blackish ; inside of the mouth, 

 and eyelids orange ; irides dull hazel ; the plumage cinereous blue, 

 each feather marked near the end with a brown band, the very tip 

 white ; quills and tail dusky, edged with cinereous blue ; legs dusky. 



The female is blue, but much inclined to ash-colour, and beneath 

 transversely waved with this last colour, and black. 



This species is found in the Isle of Candia, Dalmatia, and parts 

 between, most of Archipelagic Isles, and probably those of the 

 Mediterranean ; since Edwards mentions it as being at Gibraltar, 

 from whence also I have received a specimen. 



