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generally more distinctly marked than those of the Black- 

 bird, the spots being clearer and not so much run together. 

 Mr. James Small, in describing a nest which he found while 

 fishing in Earnscleuch Glen, in the Lammermuirs, on the 28th 

 of June 1869, says : — " Both parents were in a great state of 

 chatter and excitement, and showed a great deal of boldness 

 by flying at me repeatedly as I handled the young, which 

 were just ' ripe.' The cock flew oftenest at me, but of course, 

 both birds swerved when they came near my face. The 

 nest was placed under the branches of a large bunch of 

 heather growing on the top of a rock, which stands about 

 ten feet above the burn in which I was fishing." ^ 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vi. p. 96. 



