38 THE THRUSH. 



ting that country immediately after the vintage 

 is over ; but with us this does not seem to be 

 the case. It is said, there are no birds for which 

 more snares are set, than thrushes ; and this not 

 merely to secure them as singing birds, but also 

 as articles of food. They are considered a deli- 

 cacy when in good condition. 



With us, the thrush is heard as early as Feb- 

 ruary, and continues to sing till the end of July, 

 or beginning of August. And here we cannot 

 but confess the chagrin we feel at being com- 

 pelled to relinquish a delightful anecdote of the 

 thrush which we had extracted from the Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, and prepared for our 

 own especial purpose. But, lo ! the writer of 

 the Architecture of Birds, has forestalled us, and 

 appropriated the story to his own use. We are 

 half inclined to quarrel with him for this, much 

 as we are disposed to commend his book. Alas ! 

 for us, in the present day of endless scribbling 

 and countless authorship, every ill-fated writer is 

 in danger of treading on the heels of another, 

 and feels himself forced either to keep content- 

 edly in the back-ground, or push his fellow-tra- 

 veller uncivilly from the pavement. Eh bien ! 

 of the two evils the first mentioned is, in our es- 

 timation, the least. So, adieu to the thrush story 

 for us ! Our readers will find it in the Magazine 



