THE 
BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
ORDER PASSERES. 
FAMILY TURDID#,—SUB-FAMILY TURDINZ. 
MISTLE THRUSH. 
TURDUS VISCIVORUS, Linnzus. 
Stormcock, Shercock, Sedcock, Sadcock, Shrillcock, 
Thricecock. 
As a resident bird, the Mistle Thrush is generally 
distributed throughout the county, but is much less 
common than the Song Thrush and Blackbird, and, in 
the north at any rate, has decreased in recent years. 
In the east, where it is more plentiful than in other 
parts of the county, its conspicuous and often untidy 
nest is placed in the fork of a mountain-ash in some 
sparsely wooded clough, or in one of the small clumps 
of trees that break the monotony of the barren hill- 
sides. Orchard trees, or oaks in the hedgerows, are 
often selected on the lower ground, and not infrequently 
the bird builds in suburban gardens, where it boldly 
defends its nestlings against the attacks of cats and 
other marauders. At Bosley we once saw a pair of 
Mistle Thrushes mob a Carrion Crow so persistently 
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