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expected, in the Broad districts of Norfolk. About 

 August or September, when the young have gained 

 sufficient strength, they leave their inland quarters 

 and betake themselves to the sea-coast and salt- 

 water mudbanks, joining occasionally in immense 

 flocks. 



On rough stormy nights in the early part of 

 the autumn these birds are often attracted by the 

 glare of the lights, and may be heard in company 

 with other waders flying over large towns to the 

 great astonishment of the inhabitants. 



I have in two or three instances discovered 

 eight eggs in the nest of the Common Redshank, it 

 being in every case quite evident from the difference 

 in the colour of the eggs that two birds had laid 

 in the same nest. I have also seen seven and eight 

 eggs in the nest of the Greenshank in Sutherland 

 and Ross-shire ; though in neither case could I 

 distinguish the slightest difference in the eggs, the 

 whole appearing to be one set ; this however was 

 unlikely, as several other pairs of birds were 

 observed at no great distance. 



The specimens in the case were obtained in 

 Glenlyon in Perthshire in June, 1867. 



THRUSH. 



Case 158. 



This well-known songster is widely dispersed 

 over the British Islands, the nature of the country 

 however being less suited to its habits in the north ; 

 it is not so abundant in the wild districts of the 

 Highlands. 



Its neatly-built nest is placed in a variety 

 of situations, at one time high in the branches of 

 some lofty tree, at another among the ivy and other 

 creeping plants, on some overhanging bank, or even 

 on the ground itself; furze-bushes, faggot-stacks, 

 piles of old rubbish, ruined buildings, and indeed 



