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1 The thrush's song 



Is vaaed as his plumes ; and as his plumes 

 Blei^ beauteous^ each with each, so run his notes 

 Sm<^thly, with many a happy rise and fall. 

 Sometimes below the never-fading leaves 

 Of ivy close, that, overtwisting, binds 

 Some riven rock, or nodding castle wall : 

 Securely there the dam sits all day long ; 

 While from the adverse bank, on topmost shoot 

 Of odour-breathing birch, her mate's blythe chaunt 

 Cheers her pent hours, and makes the wild woods ring. 



Grahame's Birds of Scotland. 



THE THRUSH. 



THROSTLE, OR MAVIS. 

 TURDUS MUSICUS; LINN^US. LA GRIVE; BUFFON, 



Of this g-enus there are four species that rank 

 very high as song-hirds, viz, the thrush, or mavis, 

 sometimes caEecl song-tlu'ush, — the solitary or 

 moor-thrush, — the missel thrush, — and the hlack- 

 bird, or black ouzel, already mentioned. All these 



