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purplifc red, having the verge of each feather yel¬ 
low ; the belly white : the fides, and inner coverts 
of the wings bluilh. The tail was three inches 
and a half long; the two middlemoft feathers 
were of a dulky brown ; the others black with 
white tipsthe end and exterior fide of the out- 
moft feathers wholly white. 
hind part of the neck : which Mr. Willoughby 
and other writers give it: except that it entirely 
agrees with the Auftrian kind, defcribed by Dr. 
Kramer ; as the former has given but an itnper- 
fe a account of it, we have been more particular 
in our defcription than the goodnefs of the figure 
would otherwife have required. 
This fpecimen wanted the black fpot on the 
GENUS XVI. THRUSHES. 
SPECIES I. The Miffel-bird* Plate P. Fig i. 
Miffel-bird, or Shrite. IVil. orn. 187. 
Raii Jyn. av. 64. 
Miffeltoe-thrulh, or Shreitch. Charl¬ 
ton ex. 89. 
Turdus major. Briffon av. II. 200. 
Turdus vifcivorus. Gefner av, 759. 
Lin.fyft. 168. 
r'T~T H I S is diftinguifhed from all of the 
kind by its fuperior fize ; weighing near 
five ounces. Its length is eleven in¬ 
ches : its breadth flxteen and a half : in colois it 
very much refembles that well known bird tne 
Throftle j and differs materially only in thefe 
particulars, viz. The fpots on the breaft are larger $ 
the inner coverts of the wings in tms are white, in 
the Throftle yellow 5 and the feathers beyond 
the vent of the miftel bird are of buff color, thole 
of the other white. 
Thefe birds build their nefts in bufhes, or on 
the fide of fome tree, generally an afh, and lay 
four or five eggs : their note of anger or fear is 
very harfh, between a chatter and a fkreek } from 
whence fome of its Fnglijh names : its fong tho 
is very fine, which it begins in the fpring, fitting 
on the fummit of a high tree. It feeds on infedfs, 
holly and mifteltoe berries ; the IFeljh call it Pen 
y llwyn , or the mafter of the bufh ; as it will 
drive all the leffer fpecies of thrufhes from it. The 
antients believed that the mijfeltoe (the balls of 
bird-lime) could not be propagated but by the 
berries that had paft thro’ the body of this bird ; 
and on that is founded the proverb of Furdus ma¬ 
lum fibi cacat . 
SPECIES II. The Fieldfare. Plate P. 2. Fig. 3. 
JVil. orn. 188. 
Raii fyn. av. 64. 
Brijfon av. 2. 214. 
fHIS bird paffes the fummer in the 
northern parts of Europe ; alfo in lower 
Auftria *. It breeds in the largeft 
Turdus pilaris. Gefner av. 753* 
Lin.fyft. 168. 
trees 5 7 feeds on berries of all kinds, and is very 
* deneb. 361 • •f* Faupi. faec . 78, 
fond of thofe of the juniper. Fieldfares vifit our 
iflands in great flocks about Michaelmas , and leave 
us the latter end of February , or the beginning of 
March. We fufpedl that the birds that migrate 
here, 
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