. An illustrated manual of British birds . n Australian species, T. iu?tulatus,with only twelve tail-feathers, has not unfrequently been passed offas Whites Thrush. An example of the Siberian Thrush (Zl sibiricus, Pallas), said tohave been shot in Surrey m the winter of 1860-61, and originallysupposed to be a melanism of the Redwing, is in the collection ofMr. F. Bond ; and I fully believe that another was picked up ex-hausted at Bonchurch, I. of Wight, in the winter of 1874; but theevidence is not sufificient to warrant the introduction of this speciesinto the British list. Like Whites Thrush
. An illustrated manual of British birds . n Australian species, T. iu?tulatus,with only twelve tail-feathers, has not unfrequently been passed offas Whites Thrush. An example of the Siberian Thrush (Zl sibiricus, Pallas), said tohave been shot in Surrey m the winter of 1860-61, and originallysupposed to be a melanism of the Redwing, is in the collection ofMr. F. Bond ; and I fully believe that another was picked up ex-hausted at Bonchurch, I. of Wight, in the winter of 1874; but theevidence is not sufificient to warrant the introduction of this speciesinto the British list. Like Whites Thrush, it has the light-colouredpatch on the underside of the wing, characteristic of the genusGeocichla. The adult male is dark slate-grey, with a conspicuouswhite eye-streak, and white abdomen; the female is olive-brownabove, and whitish-buff barred with brown beneath ; both sexeshaving white patches at the tips of the tail-feathers. Stragglers haveoccurred as near our shores as Germany, Belgium and France. J3 H-\. ^s i^i n^ :«^^-. THE BLACKBIRD. TuRDUS MKRULA, Linn?eus. The Blackbird, the Ouzel-cock so black of hue of Shake-speare, is of general distribution throughout the British Islands,where it may be considered as a resident, excepting in some of theOuter Hebrides and the Shetlands, to which it is chiefly an autumnand winter visitor. Like the Missel-Thrush and probably for thesame reasons, the Blackbird has spread northward and westward oflate years ; in some places, as at Gairloch in Ross-shire, supplantingthe Ring-Ouzel ; while in addition to our native-bred birds, some ofwhich are, perhaps, partially migratory, large flocks visit us inautumn and winter. In the Faeroes the Blackbird has occurred in spring ; it un-doubtedly straggled to Iceland in the winter of 1877, and once to theisland of Jan Mayen. About 67° N. lat. in Norway appears to be itshighest breeding-range ; south of which it is found nesting down to theAzores, Madeira, the Canaries, both sides of th
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