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heaps of the shells thus broken may be seen by 

 garden walls, and in pastures on the edges of 

 thickets. Macgillivray states that in the Hebrides, 

 where it frequents the shores in winter, it treats in 

 the same manner Turbo littoreus and Trochus 

 conuloides, and fragments of these shells may often 

 be found under shelter of some stone or slab, to 

 which the bird flies with its prey. 



In addition to the food above mentioned, Thrushes 

 are partial to fruit, seeds and berries of various kinds; 

 berries, in fact, constituting a considerable portion 

 of their diet during hard weather, when the ground 

 does not admit of their procuring insect food. 



In the case of so familiar a bird, the nest and 

 eggs are doubtless too well known to need descrip- 

 tion. 



