. A history of British birds . wn ; the ear-coverts mottledwith two shades of brown, with darker tips : the chin white;the throat, sides of the neck, breast and flanks, ochreous-yellow, spotted with dark brown; belly, vent and tail-coverts, nearly white, the first with a few well-defined spotsof dark brown; tail reddish-brown beneath ; legs and toespale brown, claws darker brown. The whole length rather less than nine inches. The wing,from the carpal joint to the end of the longest primary, fourinches and five-eighths : the second quill rather longer thanthe fifth; the third the longest in the
. A history of British birds . wn ; the ear-coverts mottledwith two shades of brown, with darker tips : the chin white;the throat, sides of the neck, breast and flanks, ochreous-yellow, spotted with dark brown; belly, vent and tail-coverts, nearly white, the first with a few well-defined spotsof dark brown; tail reddish-brown beneath ; legs and toespale brown, claws darker brown. The whole length rather less than nine inches. The wing,from the carpal joint to the end of the longest primary, fourinches and five-eighths : the second quill rather longer thanthe fifth; the third the longest in the wing, but the fourthnearly equals it. The female is smaller than the male ; the head and upperpart of the neck are lighter; the white of the breast not sopure, Avith less of the yellow colour ; the breast-spots larger,and not so well defined. The back and scapulars in young birds have a pale yel-lowish spot in the middle of each feather, and the smallerwing-coverts streaked with pale brown. 268 PASSERKS. TURDUS ILIACUS, LinilfBUS*. THE REDWING. Turdufi diariis. The Redwing is a regular winter-visitor to the BritishIslands, which comes to us in flocks from Iceland and thenothern parts of the European continent, frequently arrivingby the middle or before the end of October. While in thiscountry, it chiefly affects enclosures and parks that are orna-mented with clumps of trees; and, like the Song-Thrush, whichit much resembles in external appearance, it seeks its subsis-tence in mild and open weather in pasture-lands and moistmeadows, feeding principally on w^orms, snails, slugs andinsects. It is much less inclined to eat berries than mostof the other species of this genus; and should its usualresources be closed by long-continued frost and snow, theRedwing is the first among birds to suffer, and during somesevere seasons, such as 1799, 1814, 1822, and the wintersof 1838- 39 and 1860-61, hundreds have been found * Syst. Nat. Ed. ]2, i. ).. 2!t2 (17f)()). RE
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