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of Europe, &c. In its habits it is gregarious. In 

 winter it feeds in the open fields on worms, larvae, 

 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. 



THRUSH, ROCK. 



TURDUS SAXATILTS, Temm. 



A specimen of this beautiful bird, figured and 

 described by Mr. Yarrell, was obtained in 1843, 

 by Mr. Thomas Trigg, who shot it at Therfield, 

 near Boyston, 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 



