XVII. SONG THRUSH. 



(Turdus musicus.} 



I MADE this drawing from a cage-bird borrowed from a work- 

 man in the High Street of Glasgow. Thrushes are much more 

 numerous at Koshven now than they were when we first came, 

 probably owing to the increase of cultivation and enlargement of 

 the garden. They stay all winter, unless the frost be unusually 

 severe, and may be heard singing their most beautiful of all birds' 

 songs even in a January morning if the weather be mild. They 

 sing earlier in the morning and later in the evening than Black- 

 birds do. Of course, these birds take their full share of the fruit, 

 but that can be replaced by parcel post the songs cannot. 

 Thrushes abound in summer in the birch woods as well as in the 

 garden here. 



