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solitarius of Willughby, Orn. 140, and the Solitary Thrush of Montagu.”' 
It is most evident from this that he had not examined Willughby ’s de- 
scription. Wilson describes an American bird under the name of the 
Hermit or Solitary Thrush ( Turdus solitarius^ which has little if any 
resemblance to the preceding. The dull cream-colour of the throat 
marked with large dark-brown pointed spots in the American bird, ac- 
cords not at all with the pale yeUowish-brown, mottled with a darker 
shade, of the bird described by Montagu.^ 
It appears to me that so far as relates to the British bird, the sub- 
ject requires farther investigation, and might soon be set at rest by 
rearing individual birds. 
Syme is of opinion that it is a distinct species, from its appearing in 
mature adult feather, while its plumage is lighter and more of a browm 
colour than that of the young starling’, which he describes as of a dull 
dingy black, with loose, immature, bunchy plumage. Above all, the 
song of the brown thrush is said to be very superior in richness, mel- 
lowness and compass, to any of the thrushes, resembling, but much ex- 
celling, the notes of the throstle. 
It is not improbable, however, that the latter circumstances have 
been taken from a ring-ouzel (Merulus torquatus). I am at least very 
doubtful of any European species excelling the song thrush, though 
Wilson, who was a good judge, thinks several of the American ones 
far superior.* 
BROWN TERN. — A name for the Tern (^Sterna Jiirundoi) in its 
immature plumage. 
BULBUS GLANDULOSUS. — *A zone of glands encircling the 
upper entrance of the stomach, or rather the lower end of the guUet, 
and serving to secrete the gastric or digestive fluid.* 
BULLFINCH {Pyrrliula vulgaris, Temminck.) 
*Pyrrhula vulgaris, Temin. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 338 Loxia pyrrhula, Linn. Syst. 1. 
p. 300. 4 Fauna Suec. No. 225 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 846. sp. 4 Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 1. p. 387. sp. 56. — Raii, Syn. p. 86. A. — Will. p. 130. t. 43 — Le 
Bouvreuil, Biijf. Ois. 4. p. 372. t. 17 — Ih. pi. Enl. 245. M. & F. — Le Bruant 
ecarlate, Sonn. nov. edit, de Buff. Ois, 13. p. 114. — Bouvreuil commun, Temm. 
Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 338 Bothburstiger Ginipel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 55. 
—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 147. — Bullfinch, Br. Zool. 1. No. 116. — 
Arct. Zool. 2. No. 353. A. — Alhin, 1. t. 59, 60. — Lath. Syn. 2. p. 143. 51 — 
Jb. Supp. — Lewm’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 70 — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 Haye's Br. Birds, 
t. 37 Wale. Syn. t. 209. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 11.— jBeteic/c’s Br. Birds, l.t. 
p. 138. — Shaw’s Zool. 9. p. 318. t. 52 Selby, pi. 54. fig. 1. 2. p. 258. 
* Br. Anim. p, 86. 
* Architecture of Birds, p. 206. 
