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of Europe, &e. In its habits it is gregarious. In 
winter it feeds in the open fields on worms, larve, 
and seeds. Its nest, rather bulky in size, and 
formed in bushes or on trees, is plastered inter- 
nally with mud, and lined with roots, grass, and 
moss. The eggs, four or five in number, and 
an inch and three-quarters long, are of a flesh 
colour or purplish red hue. ‘The song of the Missel 
Thrush resembles that of the Blackbird, but its notes 
are less mellow and modulated. 
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TURDUS SAXATILIS, Zemm. 
A specimen of this beautiful bird, figured and 
described by Mr. Yarrell, was obtained in 1848, 
by Mr. Thomas Trige, who shot it at Therfield, 
near Royston, in Hertfordshire. According to 
Temminck this species frequents the highest 
rocky mountains, and is met with in Switzer- 
land, the Tyrol, Hungary, Turkey, the Archi- 
pelago, the Apennines, the Alps, and the Pyrenees. 
Along the coasts of the Mediterranean, in Ger- 
many, on the high mountains of France, and on 
the Volga, it is found more rarely. Its nest 
is constructed of moss, in a fissure of rocks, or 
