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scalded Indian meal, juicy fruits, and now e/id 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 a 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." 



