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scalded Indian meal, juicy fruits, and now and then some 

 bread boiled in milk, a few insects, or minced flesh. The 

 young, when taken from the nest, may be fed on ripe cherries, 

 and other kinds of juicy fruits. 



" Like all other thrushes," says Mr. Audubon, " this is very 

 fond of bathing and rolling itself in the dust or sand of the 

 roads and fields. Several are frequently seen together in the 

 borders of small ponds or clear rivulets, immersed up to their 

 body, splashing the water about them until completely wetted; 

 then ascending to the top of the nearest bushes, they plume 

 themselves with apparent care, notwithstanding which, they 

 are at times so infested with a minute species of louse as to be 

 destroyed by it." 



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