TURDUS ILIACUS. 
REDWING, 
Generic Character. See Turdus Vifcivocus, 
Synonyms. 
Turdus Iliacus. Lin. Syft. i.^. 229. 3. Ind. Orn, 
1. p. 329. 7. 
Redwing. Br, ZooL 108. Ih. fol. 91. tab. fig, 2. 
Ar5l. ZooL 2. 342. jD. LatL Syn. 
3. />. 22. 7. Mont, Orn. T>i5i, Vol, 2, 
Bewick's Br, Birds^ Pt, 1. 129. 
Alhin's Birds ^ 1. tab, 35. 
JL HE length of this fpecies is about nine, and the breadth 
fourteen inches ; it weighs nearly two ounces and a half. 
Bill flightly notched at the tip ; infide of the mouth yellow ; 
irides dark hazel ; tail fomewhat forked, with the fhafts of the 
feathers proje61;ing rather beyond the webs ; legs and claws 
ilrong. The female correfponds in its markings, but the 
colours are duller than in the male,. 
The Redwing arrives in this country in large flocks, about 
the end of September or beginning of October, and quits it in 
March, fome few remain through the year and breed here ; 
we had a fine male bird fent us in the month of July in the 
prefent year ; there were a pair which had built their neft in a 
low quickfet hedge, but being difturbed, had forfaken it before 
the 
