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birds, the nest being placed in the bough of a sycamore about 

 12 feet high. I believe this is the first and only recorded 

 instance of this bird nesting in Orkney. I have observed this 

 bird singly on several occasions, but never saw their nest here 

 again." 



Mr. Spence says that in 1875 a pair of Missel-Thrushes 

 built their nest and reared their young at East Bank, near 

 Kirkwall. 



The first Missel-Thrush ever seen by Mr. Gilmour on the 

 Pentland Skerries was on April 1st, 1888. Another was seen 

 by him on March 20th, 1889, and Mr. Gilmour adds this note : 

 "Very rare; only once or twice I have seen it before." 



Turdus musicus, L. Song-Thrush. 



Orc.=Mavi. 



Low mentions this species as common, and resident in Hoy and 

 the Mainland, breeding in both islands. 



We have notes of the Thrush as being a common bird in 

 most of the larger islands from all our correspondents ; and we 

 ourselves found it in Hoy and the Mainland, but saw none in 

 the Westray group, Sanday or N. Ronaldsay. Mr. Harvey, 

 however, records it as breeding in the former of the two last- 

 named islands. 



From observations we made in Rousay the Thrush seems 

 mostly to leave that island in the winter; and Mr. Irvine- 

 Fortescue noticed that during a heavy snow-fall in the winter 

 of 1886, Thrushes deserted the locality of Swanbister, and went 

 down to the shore. 



Thrushes breed in S. Eonaldsay, though they are much 

 rarer there than Blackbirds. Mr. Keid, St. Margaret's Hope, 

 informed us of a nest of young birds, in a garden near there, in 

 1889. We also saw Thrushes in the plantation of Muddiesdale, 

 near Kirkwall, the same year. 



On December 8th, 1889, Mr. Monteith-Ogilvy saw a Thrush 

 on the garden wall of Holland House, Papa Westray, and says 

 it is the only one he saw there. 



