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inches), considerably broader, and has much 
larger and many more of the rounded black 
spotsonthechest. (Male and female are alike, 
except a general duller colour in the latter.) 
It also sits up in a statuesque manner foreign 
to the song thrush, and has also an easy 
strong up and down and not a straight flight. 
Moreover they are not nearly so common. 
Indeed, in a walk near London you would 
see a hundred song thrushes to one missel 
thrush, and they are not found in all parts. 
You would be attracted at once to it, and say 
‘What a large thrush, and what big spots 
it has!*: In the winter (for they do=moz 
migrate, though they may go south from cold) 
the birds join into small flocks which shift 
about from place to place. They separate much 
from each other after alighting, when pitch- 
ing to feed in a meadow. Observe them and 
you will see they sit motionless, upright, 
watchful and wary, for several moments to- 
gether, then take a run like the song thrush 
does and then are motionless again. One of 
its notes, also, is peculiar. JI cannot put it 
