REED THRUSH. 



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tail grey brown, with the outer feathers tipped 

 with white : all the rest of the bird yellowish ash- 

 colour. 



REED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus arundinaceus.) 



Tjj, Jusco-ferrugineus, suhtus albido'-testaceus, remigibus Juscis 



apice riifescentihus. 

 Ferruginous-brown Thrush, beneath whitish testaceous, with the 



quills fuscous, tipped with reddish. 

 Turdus arundinaceus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 296. 25. — Gmel. Si/st. 



Nat. 1. 834. — Briss. 2. 219. 6. t. '11. f. 1. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



334. 28. 



La Rousserolle. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 293. t. IS.— Buf. PI. 

 Enl. 513. 



Reed Thrush. Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 32. 28. — Lath. Sj/n. Sup. 141. 



In length seven inches : the upper mandible of 

 the beak brown ; the under whitish: the chin 

 nearly w^hite : the general colour of the plumage 

 above rufous brown : the quills brown, with red- 

 dish brown margins : the tail similar to the back : 

 the under parts of the body dirty white : legs 

 grey. There is a variety which differs principally 

 in having the upper parts of the body testaceous 

 brown : the rump and tail rufous, with all but the 

 two middle feathers of the latter with black bars 

 near the tip : the three outer ones are tipped with 

 \vhite5 and the fourth on the inner web only. 



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