. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . mp with grey ; all the feathers of the head witha slight central streak of ochre-yellow, those of the back moredecidedly marked in the same manner. The smaller wing-coverts are largely streaked and tipped, and the secondarycoverts are tipped with ochre, and the outer webs of the quillsand wing-feathers generally tinged with the same. The colour
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . mp with grey ; all the feathers of the head witha slight central streak of ochre-yellow, those of the back moredecidedly marked in the same manner. The smaller wing-coverts are largely streaked and tipped, and the secondarycoverts are tipped with ochre, and the outer webs of the quillsand wing-feathers generally tinged with the same. The colourof the lower parts as in the adult, the yellow of the neck brighter,and the spots darker. The young bird is easily distinguishedfrom the old by the greater looseness of the plumage, and espe-cially by the ochre streaks and spots of the dorsal and alar fea-thers. Progress toward Maturity.—After the first autumnalmoult the plumage is complete. As the bird advances in age,the buffy tints of the fore-neck and sides fade ; but the otherchanges are hardly perceptible, I have seen individuals, ap-parently old, in which the yellow of the lower parts had entire-ly disappeared. 141 TURDUS ILIACUS. THE RED-SIDED THRUSH,OR REDWING. WIND THRUSH. Turdus iliacus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 292. Turdus iliacus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 32,0. Redwing. Mont. Orn. Diet. Merle Mauvis- Turdus Iliacus. Temm. Man. dOrn. Redwing. Merula iliaca. Selb. Illustr. I. 165. Turdus iliacus. Redwing. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 100. L 16c Upper parts deep hair-broicn, inclining to olive; a blackish-brown spot before the eye, a large whitish band over it; secondarycoverts tipped icith greyish-tv^hite ; fore-part of neck and breasttchite, with longitudinal streaks of blackish-brown and palebroiin ; middle of the sides and lower wing-coverts light red. Male.—In form and colour the Redwing bears a great resem-blance to the Song Thrush, from which however it may readilybe distinguished at a distance by its having a broa
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