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50 _ BRITISH BIRDS, THEIR EGGS AND NESTS. 
Yorkshire friends term “a calling.” Ifa Missel Thrush is very 
angry with you, be sure his nest is not far off. Itis a large 
structure, of much such materials and design as the Blackbird’s, 
but often bound round and round with long rushes or roots, or 
other material sufficiently lengthy and pliable. The eggs, four-or 
five in general, often vary much in colouring and marks ; but are 
in general of a whitish ground-colour, lightly tinged with green 
(or perhaps faint red), and well spotted with red-brown.—f%g. 9, 
plate IT, 
‘41. WHITE'S THRUSH—(Turdus Whitei). 
Only a very rare visitant. 
42, FIELDFARE—(Turdus pilaris). 
Felfit, Felty-fare, Blue-back, Jack-bird—A very common 
winter visitor, and staying sometimes as late as 10th May. But 
they do not breed with us; and as space is not too abundant, any 
notice which can be afforded of this bird’s nesting habits must 
be put in the Appendix, if found possible. 
43. COMMON THRUSH—(Zurdus musicus). 
Seng Thrush, Throstle, Mavis.—LEvery one knows this sweet 
songster, and could point out its pet stone with its little accu- 
mulation of shattered snail shells, which, when whole, had been 
brought there by the knowing Thrush and hammered against the 
well-fixed anvil until they gave way. Lvery body knows his 
persevering song, begun at day-dawn in early February, and per- 
severed in for months of the spring and early summer. Every 
one knows its trim, neatly-plastered nest, with its warm, solid 
coating of grass and bents and roots and such like materials. 
And every body too, knows the four or five fair blue eggs with 
their tidy black spots, which now and then, however, can hardly 
be seen at all, Every body also knows how fussy the old mother ~ 
