36 BIRDS. PASSERES. 17. 18. 



Field fare. Lewin. t. 6,5. Albin 1. t. 36. Walcot t. 200. 



Length 10 inches : extent 17 inches ; weight about 4 ounces. 

 Bill yellowish, tipt with black : eyes hazel : nrck and cheeks grey: 

 throat white: quill-feathers rufty-brown, with paler edges: rump 

 grey : belly and vent white : middle tail-feathers with a mixture of 

 grey : legj dusky. 



65. T: Merula, Black : bill and edges of the eyelids 

 yellow. 



Blackbird, Ouzel. Br. Zool.pl. 47. Lewin t. 60. Walcot t. 201- 



Above 10 indies long. Male, when full grown, deep-black, witH 

 the bill, eyelids and mouth yellow ; the legs yellowish. 



Female and young bird dark rusty-brown, with the bill and eye- 

 lids dusky It is fometimes varied with black and white, and 

 fometimes entirely white. 



66. T. torqvatus. Dusky-black : breast with a white 

 patch, extending towards the neck : eyelids dusky. 



Ring ouzel. Lewin t. 59. Donovan t. 61. Walcot. t. 202. 



Length 1 1 inches : extent 17 inches : weight 

 Bill blackish yellow : iris hazel : plumage black, With a grey edge : 

 legs brown. Female with the patch on the breaft, light brown. In 

 the young birds it is wanting. 



67. T. Cinclus. Blackish brown : cheeks, throat, and 

 breast wnite : upper-part of the belly reddish-brown, 

 lower-part and tail blackish. 



Water ouzel. Lewin t, 57. Donovan t. 24. Walcot r. 196. 



Length abo^e 7 inches : extent 11 : weight 2 ounces and a half. 

 Bill black : iris hazel : head and neck blackish-brown : plumage of 

 the back and wings edged with dark grey : legs on the fore-part 

 and toes whitish, dusky behind. In the young bird the belly is 

 white. 



68. T. roseus. Head slightly crested behind : body pale 

 rose-colour: head, neck, wings, and tail, glossy black 



Rofe-coloured Ouzel. Brit. Zool. app. t 5. Lewin t. 58. 



Length 8 inches : lefs than the blackbird. 

 Bill dirty flesh-colour, tipt with black : iris pale : head, crtfi, neck, 

 wings and tail black, glossed with a changeable blue purple, and 

 green : back, rump, shoulders, breast and belly pale rofy, with a few 

 black fpots : legs dirty orange : claws hooked, brown, 



17. AMPELIS. Chatterer. 



69. A. garrulus. Head slightly crested behind; body 

 reddish-grey: back and wings dusky: throat and 

 tail black : secondary quill-feathers with a mem- 

 branous vermilion tip. 



"Waxen Chatterer. Br. Zool. t. 48. Lewin t. 66. Donovan t. ii. 



Length 8 inches : size of a ftarling. 

 Bill black ; iris reddish : lores black : front reddish : chin black, 

 edged with white above : middle of the back and shoulders dusky j 

 wing-coverts tipt with white : quills black, 3 first tipt with white, 

 6 next edged with yellow on the outer edge, and with white on 

 the inner ; 6 or 8 of the fecondaries with the shafts ending in flat 

 membranous fine red appendages: rump and vent grey : tail black, 

 whitish at the end, tipt with yellow, the under-coverts ehefnut ; 

 legs blackish, 



18. LOXIA. Grosbeak. 



70. L. curvirostra. Mandibles crossing each other : body 

 variegated with orange, yellow and green : wings and 

 forked tail dusky. 



