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during the autumn months, to the sea-shore, frequenting pasture-lands in the immediate vicinity, 

 and feeding on a small species of Helix conspicuously plentiful at that season. It breeds upon 

 Ailsa Craig, where its song may be heard strangely in contrast to the other sounds of various 

 quality to be heard on that lonely rock." Our friend Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown writes to us: — 

 "The Common Thrush is abundant in several birch-covered districts of Scotland, even as far 

 north as Cape Wrath, whence I have once seen the eggs ; I have also received the eggs from 

 Caithness. They are, however, very local so far north, and I know of some birch-covered districts 

 where not one will be found at the present day. It is common about Scourie, and especially so 

 about Badcall and Loch Suver ; we have also received its eggs from near Tongue, where 

 Mr. Crawford writes of it as a common bird. Of this species Mr. Selby says that at Tongue he 

 was informed ' they do not migrate, but remain during winter'upon the margins of the Firth 

 C? Kyle of Tongue) and other low situations.' It is somewhat curious that in the west of the 

 county we have repeatedly been assured that in winter this species resorts to the stony tops or 

 higher parts of the mountains, where, in company with or at the same time as innumerable 

 Rooks, they feed upon the numerous berries which are there found even in midwinter. It has, 

 however, been suggested to us that it is just possible that both Mr. Selby's and our own inform- 

 ants may have mistaken Redwings for Song-Thrushes." In Ireland it is also common. 



In most parts of Scandinavia the Song-Thrush is plentiful in summer. In Sweden, according 

 to Nilsson, it is found both in the north and south of the country, and a few remain in the 

 southern part during mild winters, the chief body, however, migrating to warmer climates in 

 September and October, and returning in March and April to the north again. Mr. Robert 

 Collett writes : — " The Song-Thrush arrives in the neighbourhood of Christiania about the same 

 time as the Woodcock, in the month of April, some years as early as the first of the month. . . . 

 Late in April they pair, and betake themselves to the spruce woods to nest .... They 

 generally breed in colonies, which, however, are smaller than those of the Fieldfare. About 

 the middle of August the families collect in large flocks, and range about the woods. Most of 

 them leave us late in October ; but stragglers are seen in November. In mild seasons a stray one 

 or so remains over the winter with us." Kjserbolling calls it " the commonest Thrush in 

 Denmark, and the best songster. It arrives as a migrant in March or April, a little before the 

 Redwing, and leaves in September or October ; only a few remaining with us during mild 

 winters." Von Wright says it is more or less common all over Finland; and Dresser found it 

 plentiful in the southern part of the country, but much less so in the high north, where its place 

 is taken by the Fieldfare and Redwing. He never observed any to remain during the winter ; 

 all appeared to leave the country late in September. It is also recorded as common in 

 Esthonia and Livonia by Meyer, leaving in the autumn. In Holland, Mr. H. M. Labouchere 

 informs us, it is not so common as in England ; but large flocks of Thrushes visit that country in 

 autumn on their journey south. De Selys-Longchamps states that it is very common in all 

 Belgium on its passage in September and October, and again in March and April. A certain 

 number remain to breed there. In Luxembourg De la Fontaine says it arrives in February, or 

 early in March, and leaves from about the 10th of September to the 10th of November. Krsener 

 gives it as resident in Alsace and the Vosges from April to October. Throughout the whole of 

 Germany it is common ; and Seidensacher says that in Styria it is not rare, leaving late in 



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