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BIRDS. PASSERES. 
Bombycilla. 
The length nearly 6 inches. The inside of the mouth is yellow. Plumage 
beneath, dull white ; the shafts of the breast feathers, dusky. Builds in or- 
chards, or in outbuildings. Nest of moss. Eggs five, bluish Avhite, with 
rusty spots. — It is, in a great measure, mute, and familiar. It disappears in 
September. 
Gen. XXIV. BOMBYCILLA, Chatterer.— 
Bill rounded; the base and nostrils covered with hairs. 
The first and second quill-feathers the longest. 
43. B. Garrula. Bohemian Chatterer. — Shafts of the se- 
condary quill-feathers enlarged at the end into a thin red horny 
process. 
Garrulus Bohemicus, Will. Orn. 90 — Ampelis Gar. Linn. Syst. i. 297. — 
Waxen Chatterer, Penn. Brit. Zool. i. 314 — Bombycivora Gar., Temm. 
i. 124 — IF, Sidangynffbn. — Winter visitant. 
Length 8 inches. Bill and toes black. Irides vermilion red. Feathers of 
the head forming a produced tuft. Plumage reddish ash. A band over the 
eyes and the throat black. Quills black, terminating with a triangular patch 
of yellow and white ; 8 or 9 of the secondaries with the red tips. Tail black, 
tipped with yellow ; the inner covers chesnut. In the female^ the black of the 
throat is less, and the extremities of only four or five of the secondaries are 
produced. Said to nestle in holes in rocks. Young destitute of the enlarge- 
ment of the shaft of the secondaries. Feeds on insects and berries. 
This species visits Scotland and England in the winter season ; but its mo- 
tions are irregular, being in some seasons very abundant, in others rare. 
Gen. XXV. TURDUS. Thrush. — Base of the bill with 
single stiff* hairs. Nostrils in part covered with a naked 
membrane. Food, berries, insects, and snails, 
a. Ground colour of the plumage^ brown and spotted. 
44. T. viscivorus. Missel-Thrush. — Space between the eye 
and bill, grey. Secondaries and wing-covers edged with white. 
Tail dusky ; the three outer feathers greyish-white at the ends. 
Will. Orn. 137* Sibh. Scot. 17* Penn. Brit. Zool. i. 301. Temm. Orn. i. 
161 — jB, Throstle Cock, Shrite, Holm Thrush, Misselto Thrush; 
(S', Shreitch ; W, Tresglen, Pen y Llwyn, — Resident near woods. 
Length 11, breadth 18 inches ; weight 5 ounces. Bill dusky; yellowish at 
the base of the lower mandible. Legs yellowish. Plumage above, hair- 
brown ; beneath yellowish-white, with triangular or rounded spots of dusky. 
The plumage in the female is more rufous beneath. Builds its nest in old 
trees, of lichens, lined with wool. Eggs four to six in number, of a flesh-co- 
lour, marked with deep and light rust-coloured spots. This bird varies con- 
siderably in plumage, especially in the proportion of white and red colours. 
45. T. musicus. Common Thrush. — Space between the bill 
and the eye yellow ; under the wing yellowish. 
T. simpliciter dictus. Will. Orn. 138. Sibb. Scot. 17 — Throstle, Penn. 
Brit. Zool. i. 306. — Turdus musicus, Temm. Orn. 1164 — .S', Mavis; 
Wt Aderyn bronfraith; G, Smeorach. — ^Resident in woods and gardens. 
