OF IS'OKTHUJIBEKLAXD AJfD DUliHAlI. 65 



the tips of the primaries of one wing had been entirely cut off 

 by the shot. Some of the feathers that had been shot away 

 were kindly sent to me. It lived three weeks in captivity, and 

 ate fi-eely. This is the only specimen that has ever been taken 

 in the district. 



67. Uedwixo. T. iliacus, Linnccm. 



Tardm iliacm, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 128. 

 ,, ,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, I., 268. 



A common winter visitant, appearing in flocks associated with 

 the Fieldfare. 



"VYc saw only two nests of the Eedwing in I^orway during our 

 visit in 1833. They both contained young nearly fledged. This 

 was on the 7th and 8th of Juno. One was built in a willow, 

 close to the stem, about three feet fi'om the ground; the other 

 Avas placed at about the same height fi-om the ground in a small 

 spiiice. They were both composed of fine grass mingled with a 

 little clay towards the bottom, and were lined with fine grass. 



68. 8oxG Thrvsh. T. iirsicrs, Tjinnaus. 



2\()'dus i/)Hs/cHs, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 126. 

 ,, ,, Yarrell. Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, I., 264. 



Abundant, breeding early in April. The Thrush affords an 

 interesting example of foster-parentship. On the 23rd of j\Iay, 

 1866, my attention was drawn, by my friend the late Mr. Maw- 

 son, of Xcwcastle, to an instance of a Thriish feeding, witli 

 worms, two young Hedge Accentors. I saw the Thrush take 

 worms several times to the nest of the Accentors, who quarrelled 

 for the food thus brought to them. The feeding went on for 

 several days, during which the parent Accentors were never 

 seen, but the young birds were reared. 



The late Mr. Charles St. John, in his work ' ' Xatural History 

 and Sport in Moray," states of the Thrush as follows: "When 

 it finds a snail which it cannot extract from the shell it carries 

 it to some favourite stone which happens to have a convenient 

 chink in it, pinning the shell so that it cannot slip, and then soon 



