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RING THRUSH. 



(Turdus torquatus.) 



Tu. nigricans, torque albo, rostro Jlaveseente. 



Dusky Thrush, with a white collar, and yellowish beak. 



Turdus torquatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 296.23. — Lin, Faun, Suec. 



221. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 832. — Lath, Lnd. Orn. 1.343. 56. 

 Merula torquata. Briss. 2. 235. 12. 



"Le Merle ^ plastron blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 340. 31.— 

 Buf. PL Enl. 516. male. 182. young bird. 



Ring Ouzel. Pen. Brit. Zool. 110. ^ 46. — Pen. Arct. Zool, 2. 

 344. H. — Will. Ig4. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 62. — Beivick, 

 Brit. Birds. 1. 92. — Albin. Birds, 1. 39. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3, 

 46.49. — Lath. Sup. lAl.—Don. Brit. Birds. 2. — Mont. Sup,-^ 

 Mont. Brit. Birds. 3. 61. 



The description of this bird in the Supplement 

 to the Ornithological Dictionary appears to be the 

 most correct of any I have seen, therefore I shall 

 transcribe it as it is there written : " It weighs full 

 four ounces, and is eleven inches in length : the 

 beak is partly orange yellow, especially the under 

 mandible all but the tip ; the point and the base 

 of the upper mandible more dusky: irides dark 

 hazel : the whole upper part of the bird is black,- 

 with scarcely any grey on the margins of the fea- 

 thers: tail also black: the quills and wing-coverts 

 dusky, more or less bordered with pale grey, most 

 so on the secondaries, and their larger coverts: 

 the under parts black, with cinereous edges to 

 the feathers on the body and under tail-coverts: 

 gorget pure white : under wing-coverts pale brown^ 



