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bird, alluding to the haunts it loves and the season when it 

 appears on its way south. In Sweden it is known as the Ring 

 Trast, or 'Ring Thrush;' and in Malta, as Malvitz tas-sidra 

 balda, the ' White-chested Thrush. 1 In some parts of France it 

 is distinguished as Merle terrier, or Buissonier, from its lowly 

 placed nest, either on or very near the ground. In Portugal it is 

 Metro de papo branco, ' Thrush of white throat.' I have seen it 

 occasionally in Switzerland and the Tyrol, and very frequently 

 in Norway, where in one especial locality, at the foot of the 

 highest peak in that land of mountains, it would come every 

 morning, and perching on the turf roof of an adjacent chalet, sing 

 most melodiously, while its mate was sitting on the nest among 

 some rocks hard by ; but the spot it seems of all others to prefer 

 is the copse on the sloping foot of a mountain, shelving down to 

 some quiet tarn. I have never seen it alive in Wiltshire, nor 

 has Mr. Marsh been more fortunate : I have, however, numerous 

 records of its occurrence here. Mr. E. Sloper speaks of it as 

 often seen in flocks of five or six, and of two being killed near 

 Devizes in 1851 ; another (now in Mr. Marsh's collection) was 

 killed at Compton Bassett by the Rev. A. Austin : it has often 

 been taken in Clarendon Park. The Rev. A. P. Morres has met 

 with it in his own parish of Britford, and on the downs near 

 Salisbury, and also on those near Ebbesbourne; he also possesses 

 a specimen killed at Odstock Copse in the spring of 1866 or 

 1867, and records another as seen in the garden of The Cliff at 

 East Harnharn the previous year : while a bird-trapper in his 

 parish assured Mr. Morres that he not unfrequently trapped 

 them on the downs. Mr. Baker generally saw it on the downs, 

 near Mere, in its vernal and autumnal migrations. Mr. King 

 reports that specimens were brought to him for preservation, 

 nearly every year, from the neighbourhood of Warminster. Mr. 

 Grant has supplied me with a list of thirteen specimens which 

 have been taken in various parts of Wiltshire within the last 

 twenty-five years ; previous to which the late Mr. Withers 

 assured me that scarcely a spring or autumn occurred but he 

 saw and generally captured some on the downs near Devizes. 



