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2* Turdus muficus, Lin.Syft. i. p. 2Q2. N° 4..—Scop. ann. i. N° 106.—-Muller^
j_ THROSTT.'P - 7 N* 240.— Bruti, 236.—Kramer, p. 361. 8.—Frifch. pi. 2y.— OIin. pi..
in p. 25.
La petite Grive, or», ii. p. 205. N° 2.
La Grive, Buf. oif. iii. p. 280.— PL enl. 406 *.
Mavis, Throttle, or Song Thrulh, RaiiSyn. p*. 64. A. 2.— Will. orn. p, i88r_
—Br. Zool. N° 107.— Ar£t. Zool,
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/.
Description. 'j - 'H I S is nine inches in length, thirteen and a half in breadth*.
and weighs three ounces. It is much left in lize than the
Mijfel Thrujh, but correfponds much with it in colour: it differs,
however, in the fhape of the fpots in the under parts of the body j
for, as in the Mijfel Thrujh, they are of an irregular fhape, in
this bird they are formed fomewhat like the heads of arrows, with
the points upwards.
This is a well-known and much-efteemed bird in England, on
account of its fweet fong, confifting o f a great variety of notes,
which it begins early in the fprihg, and continues near nine
months.— We often fee this pleafing fongfter perched on fome
tall tree, fweetly beguiling the footfteps of the liftening traveller.
It begins to breed very early in fpring, hatching the firft
brood, for the moft part, the beginning of April, and not unfre-
quently bringing two others in May and June. The nefl is
placed in fome low bufh, and is compofed of earth, mofs,, and
ftraw intermixed, lining it within with clay; on which it lays
five or fix eggs, of a blueifh green, marked with a few fpots of
black.
Place and
Manners.
Called by miftake Li tome.
This
I I!
'This is a folitary fpecies, never uniting, with us, into flocksi.
like the Fieldfare and Redwing; yet in France is faid to be migratory
*, coming into the province of Burgundy twice in a year;
the firft time, when the grapes are ripe, and doing great damage
to the vineyards'"!-, and diiappearing with the firft frofts; they
appear again in April, and moft of them depart in May, leaving
a very few behind, which arc obferved to breed J. In Sweden ||
only feen in fummer.
It is met with in many parts of Ruffia, efpecially where junipers
grow ; moft frequent about the river Kama: but not in
Sibiria§.
A bird of this kind is mentioned by Aldrovand**, which differed
only in having the top of 'the head white; and another by
Swenckfield f-f, with a whitifh creft, and the neck encompaffed
with a ring of the fame colour.
Birds of this kind are fometimes feen wholly of a white,
though for the moft part that white has more or left of a mixture
of brown $£ ; which is the cafe with one now in the
« It probably lhifts its quarters in winter, in the north of England and Scotland,
as Dr. Heyß am of Carlifle (to whom we owe many obfervations on the birds
which are in thofe parts) has never been able to meet with one during the winter
feafon ; and feems inclined to think, that it either leaves that country in
winter, or retires to the moft thick and folitary woods. At the latter end of Fe~
bruary it is found there plentiful. Mr. Ekmarck obferves, that incredible
quantities of the Song and Mijfel ’Thrujhes, and Fieldfares, are obferved to pafs
through Livonia, C our land, and PruJJia, for a fortnight after Michaelmas, making
their way as far as the Alps. Amcen Acad. vol. iv. p. 578.
+ Hence called Grive de Eigne. Hifi, des oif.
X It is met with at Aleppo. Rujfell.
|| Amcen. Acad. ii. p. 45. § Mr. Pennant. ** Av. ii. p. 601.
+t Av. Silef. p. 362. Jt Hift. des oiJ.— Ste Fri/ch. pi. .33*
D 2 Leverian