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BRITISH BIRDS, 
THE BROWN STARLING, 
OR SOLITARY THRUSH. 
(Turdus solitarius — Le Merle solitaire , Buff.) 
The above figure was taken from the stuffed speci- 
men of a bird which was shot out of a flock, crossing 
the road at Kenton, Northumberland, in the month of 
September. It does not exactly correspond with the 
descriptions given of the solitary Thrush by Latham 
and Montagu, and theirs also differ from each other : 
our bird was not tinged with blue, neither had it the 
small whitish spots, which the former describes, nor 
the feathers of the back slightly tipped with pale brown, 
as noticed by the latter. In other respects, our bird 
does not differ materially from theirs. This bird is 
nearly of the same length as the Throstle, but not 
quite so bulky ; the bill is dusky, and from the tip to 
the brow is about seven-eighths of an inch in length ; it 
