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 The Ring Owzel Merula Torquata. /fclliL^ 



Numb. XXXIX. ^3^^ 



IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail Is eleven 

 Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended, leventeen Inches ; 

 the Bill is an Inch long or more, of a dusky or blackifh Colour. The 

 Mouth is yellow within fide, the Tongue rough : The Ir'tdes of the Eyes 

 are of a dark hazel Colour ; the Legs and Feet dusky : the outer Toe is 

 joined to the middle Toe as far as the firft Joint. The Colour of the 

 upper Side of the Body is a dark brown or ruflet, inclining to black. 

 The Ring or Collar is below the Throat, juft above the Breaft, of a 

 whit« Colour, an Inch broad, of the Form of a Crefcent, the Horns 

 ending at the Sides of the Neck. 



It hath eighteen quill Feathers in each Wing ; the Tail is made up of 

 twelve Feathers four Inches long, the outermoft a little fhorter than the 

 reft. The exterior Feathers of the Tail are blacker than the middlemoft \ 

 the fmall Feathers under the Wings whitilh. 



It hath a large Gall and a round Spleen ; in the Stomach was found 

 Infeds and Berries. This Bird was fhot by Sir Robert Abdy on a Rock 

 by Crownford in Darbyjhire on the fourteenth of April. It is a fcarce 

 Bird, and is in the moft mountainous Places of that Country, efpecially 

 about the Feah 



The Guts are pretty large, but not very long, and confequently has 

 not many Revolutions. The blind Guts are fmall, white, and very 

 fhort, as in the reft of this Kind. The Stomach or Gizzard is of a 

 moderate bignefs, filled partly with InfeBs and partly with the purple 

 Juice of B'dl-berrksj which had alfo tindlured all the Excrements of 

 the Guts, 



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