. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . PLATE. PLATE CCXVII. TURDUS Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraightifh: the upper mandible a little bending and notchednear the point: noitrils naked, or half covered with a fmall mem
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . PLATE. PLATE CCXVII. TURDUS Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraightifh: the upper mandible a little bending and notchednear the point: noitrils naked, or half covered with a fmall mem-brane : mouth ciliated with a few briftles at the corners : tonguejagged. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNO , bill and eye-lids yellow. TURDUS MERULA : ater, roftro palpebrifque fulvis. Linn, Fn>—GmeL Linn. Syft. Nat. 831. 22.—-Mull. Zool. n. 2Q. 241. Merula. SO. b.—Gefn. —Aldr. 602,t. 604. 605.—Bri(/: Av. 2. p. 227. t. 10. Merle. Olin. ucc. p. 29. Merle. Buff. Hiji. Nat. des Oif. 3. p. 330. t. 20.—PL Enl. IX. H Schwarze PLATE CCXVII. Schwarze Arnfel. Frijch. Jv. t. 29-—Gunth. Neft. U. ~Eyer. t. May Syn. p. 65. /.—Will. Orn. p. 190.—Albin. I. pi. 37.— Br. Zool. 1. N° 109. pi W.—Lath. Gen. Syn. v. 2. p. I. p. 43. The length of this bird is ten inches: the bill, infide of the mouth,and eye-lids in the male
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