. The sportsman's British bird book . ing ofthe breast. With the exception of the rare Whites thrush, the presentspecies is the largest British representative of the group, measuringI 1 inches in length. In the cock Mistle-Thpush (Turdus viseivopus). the colour above is olive-brown,while below it is huffish profuselyspeckled on the breast with darkfan-shaped spots, and on thethroat with arrowhead-markings,the under surface of the wingbeing white. A slightl) palerhue is distinctive of young birds the head isashy grey, with black tips tothe feathers of the crown; thefeathers of the ba
. The sportsman's British bird book . ing ofthe breast. With the exception of the rare Whites thrush, the presentspecies is the largest British representative of the group, measuringI 1 inches in length. In the cock Mistle-Thpush (Turdus viseivopus). the colour above is olive-brown,while below it is huffish profuselyspeckled on the breast with darkfan-shaped spots, and on thethroat with arrowhead-markings,the under surface of the wingbeing white. A slightl) palerhue is distinctive of young birds the head isashy grey, with black tips tothe feathers of the crown; thefeathers of the back have broadbuff-shaped streaks, and darkbrown tips, the wing-covertsbeing similarly streaked but lack-ing the dark tips ; with the ex-ception of the throat, which iswhite, the under-parts are tinged with fawn, and spotted with a range very similar to that of the song-thrush, the mistle-thrush is a less common bird in the British Isles than the former. Oflate years it has, however, shown a decided increase in numbers, and. !€^ HE ROWLAND WARD STUDIOS MISTLK-THKLSH. 454 PERCHING BIRDS has likewise displayed a marked tendency to extend its range intoparts of the northern districts of Scotland and the neighbouring isleswhere it was previously unknown, although the Shetlands appear stillto lie outside its limits, while it is rare in the Orkney group. It isrecorded to have bred in the Outer Hebrides in 1906, and perhaps afew years earlier. More remarkable is its history in Ireland, where itappears to have been unknown before the nineteenth century, but isnow common, resident, and wideh distributed. Eastwards its range ex-tends to Lake Baikal, in Siberia, and likewise includes Kashmir and theHimalaja, where the song-thrush is unknown. In the autumn, whenthese birds collect in family parties, probably composed of the two broodsand their parents, the number of British mistle-thrushes is considerablyaugmented by the arrival of immigrants on the east coast of England. In pl
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