56 RING OUZEL. 



RING OUZEL. 



ROCK OUZEL. RING THRUSH. MOUNTAIN BLACKBIRD. 

 MOOR BLACKBIRD. 



PLATE CIV. 

 'lunius torquatus, PENNANT MONTAGU. 



Merula torrjuata, SKLBY GOULD. 



rniHE nest is built among the heather upon a ledge 

 -*- or in some hollow of the grey and hoary rock, 

 whose weather-beaten front tells of many a cold and 

 wintry blast, that has swept, age after age, over the 

 wild and desolate moor or the barren mountain side, 

 at the foot of which perhaps you may hear the splashing 

 of some waterfall, the end of a silver thread which 

 has wound its way down from above. It is hidden 

 more or less by a tuft of heath, the root of a tree, a 

 large stone, or a projection of the rock in which it is 

 placed: those found in the more southerly counties 

 were placed at a height of about five or six feet from 

 the ground in such a situation as a yew tree or ivy- 

 clad elm. It measures about seven inches in diameter, 

 about three and a half in depth on the outside, and 

 about two inches inside. It is composed of dry grasses, 

 heather, stems, or stalks, thickly matted together, with 

 here and there an occasional leaf; on the inside it is 



