Clafs II. ] B I R 
here, come from Norway , &c. forced by the ex- 
ceflive rigor of the feafon in thofe cold regions; as 
we find that they winter as well as breed in Pruffia^ 
Jiuftrk J, and the moderate climates. 
Thefe birds weigh generally about four ounces; 
their length is ten inches, their breadth feventeem 
The head is alh colored inclining to olive, and 
| Klein, bijl. av. 178. 
d s. 
fpotted with black ; the back and coverts of the 
wings of a fine deep cheftnut; the rump afh co¬ 
lored : the tail is black ; the lower parts of the 
two middlemoft feathers, and the interior upper 
fides of the outmoft feathers excepted ; the firft 
being afh colored, the latter white. The legs are 
black; the talons very ftrong. 
SPECIES III. The Throftle. Plate P. Fig. 2, 
Mavis, Throftle, or Song thrufh. 
Wil. orn. 188. 
Rail Jyn. av. 64. 
Turdus minor. BriJJon av. 2, 205. 
T HIS fpecies weighs three ounces; its 
length is nine inches,its breadth thirteen 
and a half, for a farther defeription, the 
reader is referred to that of the firft kind. The 
throftle is the fineft of our finging birds, not only 
for the fweetnefs and variety of its notes, but for 
long continuance of its harmony ; for it obliges us 
Turdus minor alter. Gefnerav. 762. 
Turdus muficus. Lin.JyJl. 169. 
Turdus in altiflimis. Klein Jlem. av. 
Tab. 13. 
with its fong for near three parts of the year, like 
the miflel bird ; it delivers its mufic from the top 
of fome high tree; but to form its neft defeends 
to fome low bufh or thicket: the neft is made of 
earth, mofs, and ftraws, and the infide is curiouf- 
ly plaiftered with clay. It lays five or fix eggs, 
of a pale bluifh green, marked with dufky fpots. 
SPECIES IV. The Redwing. Plate! 2. Fig. 2. 
Redwing,Swinepipe, or Wind thrufh 
Wil. orn. 
Rail fyn. av. 54. 
Briffon av. II. 208, Tab. 20. Fig. 
Turdus minor. Gefner av. 761. 
Turdus iliacus. Lin- fyft- 168. 
f i ^ H E S E birds appear in Great-Britain 
a few days before the fieldfare; they 
JL come in vaft flocks, and from the fame 
countries as the latter. With us they have only 
a difagreeable piping note; but in Sweden during 
the fpring they fing very finely, perching on the 
top of fome tree among the forefts of maples. 
They build their nefts in hedges, and lay fix blu- 
ilh green eggs Ipotted with black *, 
They have a very near refemblance to the 
Throftle ; but are lefs, only weighing two ounces 
and a quarter : their colors are much the fame ; 
only the fides under the wings and the inner co¬ 
verts in this are of a reddifh orange; in the 
Throftle yellow. 
* Faun. J'uec. 79. 
SPECIES 
