TURDUS TORQUATUS. 
RING, or ROCK OUZEL. 
Generic Character. See T. viscivorus. 
TuRDUS torquatus ; nigricans ; torque albo ; rostro 
flavescente. 
Ring Ouzel. Body blackish ; collar white ; bill yel- 
lowish at the base. 
TuRDus Torquatus. Lin. St/st. v. I. p. 296. GmeL 
Linn. v. 2, p. S32. Lath. Ind. Orn. v. 1 , 
p. US. 
Merula Torquata. Gesner Av. 607. Brisson Av. 
V. 3. p. 325. 12. Raii Syn. p. 65. A. 2. 
mil. Orn. p. US. t. 37. 
La Merle a Plastron Blanc. Hist. d'Ois. v. S, 
p. 340. PL Enl. p. 516. 
Merle a Plastron. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ed. 2. p. 166. 
Merlo Alpestre. Aldv' Av. v. 2* p. 282. 
RinGj or Rock Ouzel. Br. Zool. Svo. ed. v. 1. 
p. 415. pi. 50. Arct. Zool v. 2. p, 344. 
Lath. Syn. v.S. pA6. lb. Sup. p. 14L 
White Hist. Selborne, ed. 2. Svo. v L 
p. 61. 97. 114. 121. 145. 163. Mont. Orn. 
Diet. — lb. Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, pt. 1, 
p. 121. 
This species weighs from four to six ounces ; and mea- 
sures about eleven inches in length, and seventeen in 
breadth. The colours of the female are more inclined to 
dusky, and it wants the white collar so conspicuous in the 
male. 
Bill black at the tip, base yellow, inclining to orange in 
mature birds 5 irides hazel; head, and the whole of the 
