THE SONG THEUSH AND 

 ITS TRAVELS 



THE song thrush (Turdus musicus) is one of 

 the most charming of garden birds ; poets 

 have lavished their praises on the nightin- 

 gale's music, and yet the song of the thrush 

 is hard to beat. This bird has a charm of its 

 own which is difficult to describe ; in parks, 

 gardens, shrubberies, and lawns you find him, 

 and again in wild and rocky glens he is 

 equally at home. Throughout the British 

 Isles the thrush is a general favourite, 

 singing early and singing late. There is a 

 great charm in his music, which comprises 

 an infinite variety of notes, rendered in a 

 voice of wonderful " timbre " ; on a spring 

 evening after a shower of rain the song thrush 

 seems to sing to perfection. 



As an architect, too, this little bird 

 deserves notice, for the nest is both compact 

 and neat, being built of dry grass, small 

 twigs and moss plastered inside with mud 



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