THE TRUE THRUSHES. 
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Eggs. — These are stated to be similar to and to vary as 
much as those of the Blackbird, and measure ii5~r2 inch 
in length, and from 0-75-0-8 in breadth. 
TIIE TRUE THRUSHES. GENUS TURDUS. 
Tardus, Linn., Syst. Nat, i., p. 291 (1766). 
Type, T. viscivorus, Linn. 
The birds which constitute the genus Turdus number among 
them the Thrushes best known to us, such as the Song-Thrush, 
and Mistle-Thrush, the Redwing, and the Fieldfare. In all of 
these species of the genus the sexes are alike in plumage, and 
the breast is spotted, while the young birds are also spotted on 
the back. This spotted back is lost after the first autumn 
moult, when the plumage is like that of the old birds, the only- 
sign of immaturity being seen on the wing-coverts, which 
have a slight indication of a pale spot at their ends. Rictal 
bristles are evident, and the tarsus has both its laminae smooth, 
though in some young birds there is a tendency to a division 
by a single scale or two. The True Thrushes are plentifully 
represented in the Neotropical Region, fairly so in all other 
regions except the Indo-Malayan sub-region and the Australian 
region, where no True Thrushes occur. 
THE REDWING. TURDUS ILIACUS. 
Turdus iliacus, Linn., S. N., i., p. 292 (1766) ; Macg., Br. B., 
ii., p. 141 (1839); Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 268 (1872); 
Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 35, pi. 3 (1872); Seeb., Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus., v., p. 189 (1881); id. Hist. Br. B., i., p. 220 
(1883) ; B. O. U. List Br. B., p. 2 (1883) ; Lilford, Col. 
Fig. Br. B., pt. i. (1885) ; Saunders, Man., p. 5 (1889). 
Adult Male. — General colour above olive-brown, the lesser 
wing-coverts like the back; the median and greater coverts 
darker brown, edged with lighter brown, and tipped with buffy- 
white, more distinctly on the latter, the inner greater coverts 
margined with reddish-brown ; bastard-wing dark brown ; 
primary-coverts and quills dark brown, edged with lighter and 
more ashy-brown, with narrow whitish fringes near the tips ; 
tail-feathers light olive-brown, shaded with ashy on the middle 
feathers, and showing obsolete cross-bars under certain lights ; 
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