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Tloe Song Thmjh. Turdus fimpllciter di6lus. 



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IT is from the point of tlie Bill to the end of the Tail nine Inches ; its Breadth, 

 when the Wings are extended, fourteen Inches j Weight three Ounces. The Bill 

 is an Inch long, of a dufky Colour ; the Tongue a little cloven ; the Mouth within 

 lide yellow : The Irides of the Eyes are hazel-coloured ; the Spots are dufky ; the Breaft 

 yellowifli ; the Belly white : The upper Surface of the Body all over of an Olive 

 'Colour. 



This Bird in its Shape and Colour is fo like the Redwing, that they are hard 

 to be diflinguiflied ; but this has larger Spots on the Breaft and Belly. The lelTer 

 ■covert Feathers of the under Side of the Wings are of an Orange Colour ; the lower 

 ■covert Feathers have yellow Tips. The quill Feathers in each Wing are in number 

 jeighteen. The Tail is three Inches and a half long, made up of twelve Feathers. 



The Legs and Feet are of a light brown or dufl<:y Colour ; the bottoms of the 

 "Feet yellow ; the outermofl Toe grows to the middle one as far as the firft Joint. 

 It hath a Gall Bladder ; the Stomach or Gizzard is not fo thick and flefhy as in 

 ■other Birds of this Tribe. It feeds on Infers and Snails, as alfo Berries of White- 

 Thorn and Mifletoc. It abides with us all the Year, and breeds in the Spring-time. 

 It builds its Neft in thick Hedges, of Earth, Mofs, and Straw, and dawbs it with- 

 •in with Clay. It lays five or fix Kggs of a bluifh green Colour, fpeckled with a 

 few fmall black Spots, thin-fet. In the beginning of the Spring it fits on high Trees, 

 ^nd lings moft fweetly. It is a folitary Bird, filly, and eafily taken. 



For the delicate Tafte of its Flefh it is highly and defervedly commended by all. 

 It is a rare Song-Bird, as well for the great Variety of its Notes, as its long con- 

 tinuance in Song (which is at leaft nine Months in the Year.) They breed in Aprils 

 May, and June ; the firft Brood always prove the beft Birds. They may be taken at 

 fourteen or fifteen Days old, and be kept warm and neat, and fed with raw Meat, 

 Bread, and Hemp feed bruifed, the Meat chopt, and the Bread a little wet, and then 

 mixed together. When they are feathered put them in a large Cage with two or three 

 large Perches in it, and dry Mofs at bottom. You may by degrees entirely wean them 

 of Flefh, and give them only Bread and Hempfeed. Give them frefh Water twice a 

 Week to wafli themfelves, oiherwifc they will not thrive. If they are kept dirty, 

 ihey are fubjed to the Cramp. 



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