MISSEL THRUSH. , j^r 



Bergen, They migrate in great numbers into Britain at Michaelmas^ 

 and depart about the beginning of March ; but I have no certainty 

 of the place they come from. Multitudes are found in all feafons in 

 Poland * : multitudes alfo migrate from other places to the Polijh 

 woods in autumn. Perhaps the woods in all thofe countries may 

 be overcharged with them, fo that annually numbers may migrate 

 into other places, without being miffed by the inhabitants. 

 Fontofpdan fays, that Fieldfares are in great flocks in autumn, 

 when berries are mofb plenty f , Poffibly, after they have exhaufted 

 the woods, they may migrate to us, compelled both by cold and 

 want of food. They appear conftantly in the Orhiies, near the 

 approach of winter, in their way fouth, and feed during their refi- 

 dence in thofe ifles on the berries of empetrum nigrum ^ arbutus 

 alpina, and uva tirji, and thofe of the juniper. They arrive in 

 England about Michaelmas, and leave it early in March. They 

 are frequent in the forefts of Ruffia, Sihiria, and even Kcfntfchaikay 

 as is the Redwing Thrush, Botlvvifit Syria J, and both migrate 

 into Minorca in the end of 05lober, and winter ia that climate §l. 



Missel Th. By. Zool. i, N° 105.. 



Turdus vifcivorus-, Biork-Tiaft, Faun. Suec. N°2l6. 



Le Draine, De Buffon, iii. 295. — PI. Enl. i,iq.— Latham, iii. i^. 



npH. Olive-brown above : whitifh yellow below, fpotted with- 

 black : inner coverts of wings white : tail brown ; three out- 

 moft feathers on each fide tipt with white. Weight near five 

 ounces : Length eleven inches. 



Inhabits £«ro|)5 as far as JVorzyisj ; but not higher than the middle Flack- 



part. Common in Rujfta ; but has not reached Sibiria-. 



* Klein Migr, a'v. 178. f Hifi. Norway, 69. % Rujfel's Aleppo, 6e,, 71* 



§^, CkglsortC s^ Minorca, 56. 



ThRostls-, 



