Swp. 2. p. 126. Shaw's Zool v.l.p. 407. 
L bS. Nat Miscel. v. 8. t. 285. D«n. 
5r. 1. t. 7. Mont. Orn, DicL 
lb. Sup. 
In size this beautiful species equals the Blackbird, but 
it is of a more slender make ; its length exceeds nine 
inches ; breadth fifteen and a half; and it weighs about 
three ounces and a half. 
Bill sharp, of a dull red colour; irides red; legs strong, 
lead colour ; claws strong, black. 
The markings of the female are similar to those of the 
other sex, but the parts that are black in the male are of 
an olivaceous brown, and the yellow is sullied with green. 
Both sexes are liable to considerable variety in their 
markings. 
This species is but rarely met with in England, though ex- 
ceedingly common in many parts of Europe ; our figure was 
painted from a specimen killed in Devonshire, several years 
a-o. In the Monthly Magazine for December 1809, two 
. are mentioned as having been shot in Cornwall, and iu a 
note to British Zoology, one is said to have been killed 
near Saxmundham, in Suffolk. In the autumn of 1813, 
a bird agreeing with this in colour, was seen in the neigh- 
bourhood of Little Chelsea, for some weeks, but eluded 
all attempts at its capture. 
