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DEscriPpTion, 
PLACE AND 
Manners. 
Tey ED Re W457 Ere 
Turdus muficus, Zin. Spf. i. p. 292. N° 4.—Scop. ann. i. N° 196.—Mauller,. 
N° 240.—Bruz. 236.—Kramer, p. 361. 8.—Frifch. pl. 27.—Olin, pl. 
in p, 25. 
La petite Grive, Brif. orn. ii. p. 205. No 2. 
La Grive, Buf. cif. ili. p. 280.—P/. enl. 406 *, 
Mavis, Throftle, or Song Thruth, Raii Syz. p. 64. A. 2.—Will. orn. p. 188.. 
—Br. Zool. N° 107.—Ar&. Zool, 
Br. Mu. Lev, Mu. 
HIS is nine inches in length, thirteen and a half in breadth, 
and weighs three ounces. [{t is much lefs in fize than the 
Miffel Thrufe, but correfponds much with it in colour: it differs, 
however, in the fhape of the {pots in the under parts of the body ; 
for, as in the Miffel Thrujb, they are of an irregular fhape, in. 
this bird they are formed fomewhat like the heads of arrows, with. 
the points upwards. 
This is a well-known and much-efteemed bird in England, on 
account of its fweet fong, confifting of a great variety of notes, 
which it begins early in the fpring, and continues near nine 
months.—We often fee this pleafing fongfter perched on fome 
tall tree, fweetly beguiling the footfteps of the liftening tra- 
veller. 
It begins to breed very early in fpring, hatching the firft 
brood, for the moft part, the beginning of 4pri/, and not unfre- 
quently bringing two others in May and June. The neft is 
placed in fome low bufh, and is compofed of earth, mofs, and. 
ftraw intermixed, lining it within with clay; on which it lays 
five or fix eges, of a blucifh green, marked with a few fpots.of 
black. 
* Called by miftake Litorne. 
This 
