MIG R A T O R Y O U 35 15$ |
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This beautiful species of Thrush, if not tl«
Sowing descriptions, tlte. most animated of
Dr, Richardson. . Fman the latter author we
the purpose of breeding' stani- trbe Migratory !
ward,-on the llSh of April ; and m dvr eto#r
Bay, about a fortnight later, its .8,rtf «ppmw?
22nd of. April. In the «aiate »inumò» it em .i
Franklin, in lat 65a, <mi the of shat «ih
latitude, begin to hatch in trbe end of May : \
the liti» of June. T
abundance of the berri
» even then partially covers the ground
he* Vaccinmm uliginoemt and Vitbf idccn,
i nortta that <
many spirited and
mr Audubon, and
jBirfciseeu region for
¡h parallel oi
s deferred till
igb latitude«, '
4tbufitx alpina, Empetrum nigrum, and'
of some other plants, which after having been frozen up all the winter, are exposed, on the first melting of
the snow, full of juice'and in high flavour. Shortly afterwards, when the callow young require food, the
parents obtain abundance of grubs.”
When we take into consideration, the'migratory habits of this bird, and the extreme high northern latitudes
it affects,' the fact of its occasionally occurring in Epitipe is not so startling as it would otherwise appear: a
single glance at a globe will in fact make it plain to our readers, that when migrating from these high latitudes,
a slight deviation front its regular course would carry it on to the continent of Europe, where, as we
itavc before stated, it u
been killed in Germany ; and ML Bretan informs as
In its affinities we are MM&vted to eooMdfcr thin bird
which melndcs Uw Cotnm» u Blackbird,
rmaacation arc much to sctiontwee with those of it
notes o f the Robin (tl»e American name for 4b* Mrr
bint, that frequently while ¡a tanglnad Kfee w; »!'
reminded me of that o f the former when *»
btMiiu the same manner recalled to ttiy recofteelikm jj$
The sexes are alike in plumage, but the tints of <b
ffaad and sides of the face deep sooty black; xm
gfoftMHi grey tinged with brown on the shoulders; w‘t
two cuter tail-feathers tipped with white ; chin white
mjgb*h orange, each feather delicately fringed with gi
bib yellow; irides hazel; feet pale brown.
We have figured an adult of natural-size.
«art of bis 1 Manuel’
t it has been seen ii
true Merula, or as
we also find that
iird. ** So much,”
M. Temminck states that it has
i the neighbourhood of Vienna,
belonging to that section of the
its habits, manners, ami.
says M. Audubon, “ do certain;
MJ' I etnble those
r-w hurriedly
of tlie
off fra
Estro
udet* tiiii-co
pally edged with grey ;
reast and under surface
tingled white and grey;