BOCK THBUSH. 
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their primeval resting-place, or those that still abide in the 
place of their hoar antiquity. 
The eggs are described as being four, or thereabouts in 
number, and of a greenish blue colour, without spots. 
Male; length, seven inches and a half; bill, black; iris, 
dark brown. Head, crown, and neck all round, and nape, 
bluish grey; chin, throat, and breast, light chesnut brown. 
Back, on the upper part, bluish grey, passing into brown on 
the shoulders; on the remainder principally white, with a few 
bluish feathers. Greater wing coverts, dark brown, almost 
blackish, tipped with white; lesser wing coverts, also dark 
brown, nearly blackish brown. Tail, chesnut brown, the two 
central feathers rather darker than the others; upper tail 
coverts, dark brown; under tail coverts, light chesnut brown. 
Legs and toes, dark reddish brown. 
Female; head and crown, dull brown; neck on the back, 
dull brown, on the sides pure white; nape, dull brown; some 
of all these brown feathers are occasionally varied with ash- 
coloured brown. Chin, throat, and breast, reddish white, with 
five transverse lines at the end of each feather; back, brown, 
with some large white spots. Tail, light chesnut brown, the 
two middle feathers ash-coloured brown. 
Young; head, crown, neck on the back, and nape, light 
ash-coloured brown, each feather terminated with a spot of 
greyish white. Chin, throat, and breast, reddish white, much 
varied with the latter colour, which is again intersected with 
brown lines. Back, light ash-coloured brown, the feathers 
terminated with a spot of greyish white. Greater and lesser 
wing coverts, edged with grey and tipped with white; primaries 
and secondaries, tipped with white. Tail, red, tipped with 
white. 
For a description of this bird I am indebted to Mr. 
Yarrell’s work. 
