Class 2. AVES. 



Sub-class A VES C A El N ATM. 



Series ^EGITHOGNATH^E. 



Order 1. PASSERES. 



Sub-order OSCINES. 

 Section 1. OSCIKES DENTIKOSTEES. 



Family TUBDID-E. 

 Sub-family TURDINM 



Turdus viscivorus, L. Missel-Thrush. 



In a MS. note in a copy of Baikie and Heddle made by K. 

 Heddle, one of the authors, it is stated that " the Missel-Thrush 

 has bred for two years in the garden at Westness " (island of 

 Eousay). This would be between 1845 and 1856. Buckley 

 saw nothing of the bird there in 1883. 



The Missel-Thrush is apparently a very rare visitor to the 

 Orkneys, and most of our correspondents pass the bird over 

 in silence. Indeed, Mr. Moodie-Heddle tells us that neither in 

 his father's nor his own time has the bird been seen at Mel- 

 setter. 



Mr. T. W. Ranken, however, has found this bird breeding in 

 Kirkwall, and writes us as follows : 



" I first noticed this bird in the garden here on the 4th of 

 May 1874; later in the month it was joined by another, and 

 they bred in the garden, and succeeded in rearing three young 



