EGGS OF SOMERSETSHIRE BIRDS. 153 
in our county, and in this immediate neighbourhood ; 
the eggs are of a delicate pale blue, unlike those of 
the hedge sparrow, slightly resembling those of the 
redstart, but from which the plumage of the parents 
effectually distinguish them. The nest was placed 
in ivy against a wall, together with others of its 
congener, the fly catcher. The eggs vary in size, 
. perhaps the average is 84 lines long, by 64 lines 
broad. 
MERULIDAE. CINCLUS. 
10.—Cinclus aquaticus.— Water Ouzel, 
This bird uses great art to conceal its large domed nest, 
which is composed of moss, closely interwoven and 
lined with dry leaves, having an aperture at the side, 
like that of the common wren: it has been found 
behind the sheet of water formed by a cascade, which 
it would be supposed would have effectually sereened 
it from observation. The eggs are white, from four 
to six innumber, oval and pointed, in lensth 1 inch, 
by 9 lines in breadth. 
TURDUS, 
11.—Turdus viscivorus.—Missel Thrush or 
Holm Screech. 
This bird may now be found in every orchard, though 
at the time of the immortal Berwick so rare, that it 
was with difiieulty he procured a speeimen for his 
work. Egg 1 inch 3 lines, by 11 lines, ground colour 
greenish white, spotted with brown, but variable 
both in size and in colour. 
12.—T. musicus.—Song Thrush. 
I once found an old deserted nest of this bird, the lining of 
mud was cracked, there was a hole through the 
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