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THE mistle-thrush. turdus VISC1V0RUS. 
Turdus viscivorus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 391 (t 766) ; Macg., 
Br. B., ii., p. 114 (1S39) i Dresser, B. Eur., 1., p. 3 > P 1 - 1 
(1871); Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p.258 (1872); beeb., Cat B. 
Brit Mus., v., p. 194 (1881) ; id. Br. B., i., p. 207 (1883) , 
B. O. U. List Br. B , p. 1 (1883) ; Lilford, Col- Fig. Br. 
B., pt. i. (1885) ; Saunders, Man., p. 1 (1889) ; \\ yatt, Br. 
B., pi. i., fig. 2 (1894). 
Adult Male. — General colour above ashy-brown, the lower 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts washed with ochraceous- 
buff, the latter only on the margins ; lesser wing-coverts like 
the back ; median and greater coverts darker brown, the for- 
mer tipped, the latter edged with dull while, inclining to buff 
on the inner greater coverts; bastard-wing, . primary-coverts, 
and quills dark brown, edged with ashy- whitish ; tail-feathers 
baht brown with ashy margins, all but the centre tail-feathers 
wkh a white spot at the end of the inner web, increasing in 
extent towards the outermost feather, where it is very large ; 
head <uey like the back ; lores and eyelid white ; feathers 
below ° the eye and ear-coverts ochreous-buff, the feathers 
tipped with black and forming a line on the upper ear-coverts; 
cheeks, throat, and under surface of body clear ochreous-buff, 
spotted with triangular tips to the feathers, forming a line 
above and below the cheeks ; the throat scarcely spotted, and 
the tips to the feathers of the breast and sides of body 
rounded ; the lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
buffy-white without spots, the under tail-coverts edged with 
dusky brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; qui s 
ashy below, white along the inner webs ; bill dark brown, yel- 
lower at the base of the lower mandible ; feet and claws yel- 
lowish or yellowish-brown; iris dark brown, lotal length, 
io's inches; culmen, 0-85; wing, 6'o ; • tail, 4 '°; tarsus, 1 35. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male in plumage, but less 
richly spotted. Total length, io ’5 inches, wing, 5 5 - 
Young. — Not so largely spotted below ; the throat white with- 
out spots ; upper parts streaked with buff centres to the 
feathers, which have black tips; the wmg-coverts broadly 
edged with buff, and having a triangular spot of the same 
