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MISSEL THRESH. 
yellowish, and the two outer ones more or less tipped wife 
greyish white; underneath, it is grey; the under tail coverts 
have two longitudinal dusky bands, their middle part and tip 
white, and the margins pale yellowish. Legs and toes, pale 
reddish or yellowish brown; claws, brownish black. In summer 
the plumage becomes considerably worn and faded: the moult 
commences towards the end of summer, and is completed by 
the end of November. 
The female is nearly equal to the male in size, and a little 
paler in colour. Length, ten inches and rather over three 
quarters to eleven inches;" the breast is paler than in the 
male; the wings expand to the width of one foot six or 
seven inches. 
In the young the bill is light reddish brown, the upper 
mandible dusky; head and crown, pale yellowish brown, with 
a white spot in the centre of each feather; neck on the 
back, and nape, pale yellowish brown, with a yellowish grey 
mark in the centre of each feather, and the tip dark brown; 
chin, white; throat and breast, pale yellowish, the latter with 
a triangular-shaped brownish black mark on the tip of the 
feathers; back, pale yellowish brown, with a yellowish grey 
mark in the centre of each feather, and the tip dark brown. 
Greater wing coverts, brown, with broad edges of pale 
yellowish buff; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, brown, 
the latter margined with pale yellowish buff. Legs and toes, 
light reddish brown; claws, brownish. At the first moult, 
which is completed by the end of November, the adult 
plumage is assumed. 
White and pied varieties have occasionally occurred. A 
young bird of a pure white colour, with light yellow legs and 
beak, was shot by Mr. Hames, in his garden at Heavitree, 
near Exeter, on the 8th. of July, 1851. Mr. Macgillivray 
mentions one preserved in the museum of the University of 
Edinburgh, of which the upper parts resembled those of a 
young Missel Thrush, while on the lower black was the 
predominant colour; and although there were irregular light- 
coloured markings on the neck and breast, there were none 
of those which are so characteristic of the genus. 
The plate is from a design by the Eev. E. P. Alington, 
