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and milk, and about twice a week a little beef, 

 prepared as for the Mocking Bird, was all he 

 had. I use the yellow, or northern corn meal, in 

 preference to the white, or southern. Meal and 

 milk, a bit of beef, scraped, once or twice a 

 week, berries in summer, and a bit of ripe ap- 

 ple and a few black currants, occasionally, in 

 winter, are sufficient. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. The male of 

 this bird is easily distinguished from the female. 

 The male is all black, the bill a bright yellow. 

 The female upper parts are amber brown, throat 

 a dirty white, lower parts yellowish brown, bill 

 brown, tinged with the fine yellow of the male. 



LOCATION. Found throughout Britain, and 

 Resident. 



ENGLISH THRUSH, OR MAVIS. 



This is a most excellent songster, and comes 

 nearer, in the clearness and melody of its notes, 

 to the great American musician, the Mocking 

 Bird, than perhaps any other bird known. They 

 will also imitate other birds. I have one, at pre- 

 sent, which, there is no doubt, has profited in 



