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MISSEL THRUSH. 



MISSELTOE THRUSH. STORM-COCK. 

 MISSEL-BIRD. SHRITE. SHRIKE-COCK. HOLM THRUSH. 



PENN T LLWIN, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 



Turdus viscivorus, LINN^US. LATHAM. 



Merula viscivora, SELBY. 



Turdus A Thrush. Vitcivorus. Viscus The misseltoe. 



Voro To devour. 



THIS bird is a native of Europe, being found in Russia 

 and Scandinavia generally, as also in Germany, France, 

 Thuringia, and Italy; in Holland it is rare. It moves to 

 the centre of the Continent from both extremes in the 

 winter. 



In England it is plentiful in all parts of the country. 



In the south of Scotland it is not uncommon, but in the 

 central parts it is very rare, and in the extreme north entirely 

 unknown. 



In Ireland it is also generally -distributed. 



In winter these birds, at all times permanently resident as 

 a species, seem more numerous than at other seasons, so that 

 it is thought that their numbers are added to by arrivals 

 from more northern countries, such migration occurring 

 towards the end of October. 



They certainly are of a pugnacious, not to say of a predatory 

 disposition, and are accordingly objects of dislike and assault 

 to many of their feathered neighbours ; they are also quarrelsome 

 one with another. They are frequently seen in flocks of from 

 a dozen to twenty, and from fifty to sixty or seventy; and 

 in this case are often mistaken for Fieldfares when at a 



