The Ouzel and Throstle 
black ousel, cousin Shallow.” * It is a pity 
that the old and distinctive name ouzel for 
this bird has become obsolete, though it 
may still be heard in use in Scotland. On 
the other side of the Tweed, also, where so 
many linguistic relics of the old alliance with 
France still remain, the blackbird is like- 
wise known by its French name of merle, 
while the common name of the thrush is 
mauvts, likewise from the French mauvts. 
The THRUSH Or THROSTLE, another of 
eur ‘“meost) ‘musicale warblers::: is) scited 
thrice by Shakespeare without any further 
comment on his voice than the compli- 
ment in Bottom’s song— with his note 
so-true.”’ .The bird comes into one of 
Autolycus’ songs : 
The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, 
With heigh ! with heigh ! the thrush and the jay, 
Are summer songs for me and my aunts, 
While we lie tumbling in the hay.” 
Pa Henry IV. 11-11.) 7. I have heard'in, Bast | Lothian a 
remarkably dark-complexioned child called “a blacket ouzel.” 
2 Winter's Tale, wv. iii. 9. 
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