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externally slaty-grey, the former narrowly tipped, and the latter 
edged with hoary-whitish ; bastard wing-feathers blackish ; pri- 
mary-coverts and quills dusky-brown, edged with hoary-grey, 
the secondaries more broadly ; tail-feathers black, edged with 
grey, the outer ones fringed with white, increasing towards the 
outer feathers, which have a white tip ; head blackish, this 
colour extending over the nape and hind neck ; lores black, 
surmounted by a white streak ; upper and lower eyelids white ; 
ear-coverts black, washed with slaty-grey ; sides of neck slaty- 
grey ; cheeks and throat white, with a broad moustachial 
streak of black, the throat spotted with black ; under surface 
of body from the lower throat downwards clear cinnamon- 
chestnut or bay, the lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts white, the latter with dusky centres; sides of lower 
flanks ashy-grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries bright 
cinnamon-rufous like the breast ; quills dusky below, ashy- 
fulvous along the inner webs ; bill bright yellow, tipped with 
black ; feet brown ; iris brown. Total length, 9 inches ; 
culmen, o’9 ; wing, 5'i ; tail, 3'8 ; tarsus, i'2. 
Adult Female. — Similar in plumage to the male, but rather 
paler cinnamon below, with hoary margins. Total length, 9 
inches; wing, 5'o. 
Range in Great Britain. — The American “ Robin ” has been 
procured near Dover, and once near Dublin. Mr. Howard 
Saunders thinks that the birds were in all probability escaped 
individuals, but it is by no means an unlikely bird to wander 
eastward, and has occurred in Heligoland. 
Range outside the British Isles. — A bird of North America, es- 
pecially of the Eastern States, extending north to Alaska, and 
south to Mexico, while its western range is bounded by the 
great plains. 
THE NIGHTINGALES. GENUS DAULIAS. 
Daulias, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542. 
Type, D. luscinia (Linn.). 
There are three species of true Nightingale known, all plain- 
plumage birds, but all celebrated songsters. In their plain 
plumage they look like Warblers, but are shown to belong to 
the family of the Thrushes by their spotted nestlings. The 
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