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ASH-HEADED THRUSH, 



a thick bush, or against the side of a tree or baiikr 

 it lays four or five eggs, of a light blue colour, 

 thickly covered with pale ferruginous brown spots, 

 especially at the larger end; they are hatched 

 after fourteen days incubation. It is a soli- 

 tary species^ and is likewise very timorous and 

 restless ; it frequents hedges and gardens in the 

 summer, but in winter it affects woods. Its food 

 consists principally of insects, worms, and shelled 

 snails ; the latter are dexterously broken against 

 a stone, to extract the animal : it will also eat 

 fruit, and in confinement will eat bread and flesh, 

 either raw or cooked. 



This bird inhabits the greatest portion of the 

 temperate parts of Europe, and in Russia it mi- 

 grates in the dead of the winter. 



ASH-HEADED THRUSH. 



(Turdus poliocephalus.) 



Tu, obscurus, capite colloque canis. 

 Obscure Thrush_, with the head and neck hoary, 

 Turdus poliocephalus. Lath, hid. Orn. Sup. xliv, 25. 

 Ash-headed Thrush. Lath. Syn, Sup, II. Jpp, 3/3. 



The Ash-headed Thrush inhabits Norfolk Island: 

 it is in length seven inches and a half : the pre- 

 vailing colour of its plumage purplish black : the 

 head and neck pale cinereous : beak and legs 

 yellow: female with the head and neck dark ash, 

 and the rest of the plumage pale dusky black. 



