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near Udskoj-Ostrog. Early in June the young birds were fledged." It even extends to China, 

 though apparently of rare occurrence in that country, and only two instances of its capture are 

 known as yet, one of these birds having been obtained at Peking by Pere David, while Mr. Gould 

 has a second specimen in his collection from Foochow. Returning once more to the shores of the 

 Mediterranean we find that, according to Canon Tristram, " Turchts musicus often occurred in 

 winter in the higher grounds; and I occasionally noticed it in the wooded parts of Northern 

 Galilee in spring, but we did not find its nest." In Egypt Mr. E. Cavendish Taylor says that he 

 shot it two or three times in February ; and Captain Shelley also met with it there : he states 

 that it is far most abundant in the winter. Dr. von Heuglin found it not uncommon in the 

 winter in small flocks in Egypt and Northern Arabia. Hemprich and Ehrenberg procured it in 

 Nubia. In Malta Mr. C. A. Wright says it is " very abundant in October and November, and a 

 few continue to be seen till December: it repasses in March." Loche records it as "very 

 common in the autumn in all the wooded portions of Algeria ; " and Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake 

 found it plentifully in Tangier and Eastern Morocco. It even occurs in Madeira as a straggler, 

 according to Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt. 



It would, we believe, be impossible to find a better account of the habits of the Song-Thrush 

 than that given by the late Mr. Macgillivray ; and we have therefore reproduced it entire as forming 

 a complete history of the bird : — " The Song-Thrush is associated in my memory with the Hebrides, 

 where it is perhaps more abundant than in most parts of Britain. There, in the calm summer evening, 

 such as for placid beauty far exceeds any that I have elsewhere seen, when the glorious sun is 

 drawing towards the horizon, and shedding a broad glare of ruddy light over the smooth surface of 

 the ocean; when the scattered sheep, accompanied by their frolicsome lambkins, are quietly browsing 

 on the hill ; when the broad-winged Eagle is seen skimming along the mountain ridge, as he wends 

 his way towards his eyry on the far promontory ; when no sound comes on the ear, save at intervals 

 the faint murmur of the waves rushing into the caverns and rising against the faces of the cliffs ; 

 when the western breeze, stealing over the flowery pastures, carries with it the perfume of the 

 wild thyme and white clover ; the song of the Thrush is poured forth from the summit of some 

 granite block, shaggy with grey lichens, and returns in softer and sweeter modulations from the 

 sides of the heathy mountains. There may be wilder, louder, and more marvellous songs ; and 

 the Mocking-Bird may be singing the requiem of the Red Indian of the Ohio, or cheering the 

 heart of his ruthless oppressor, the white man of many inventions ; but to me it is all-sufficient ; 

 for it enters into the soul, melts the heart into tenderness, diffuses a holy calm, and connects the 

 peace of earth with the transcendent happiness of heaven. In other places the song of the 

 Thrush may be lively and cheering ; here, in the ocean-girt solitude, it is gentle and soothing ; 

 by its magic influence it smooths the ruffled surface of the sea of human feelings, as it floats over 

 it at intervals with its varied swells and cadences, like the perfumed wavelets of the summer 

 wind. 



" Here on the hill-side lay thee down on this grassy bank beside the block of gneiss that in 

 some convulsion of primeval times has been hurled unbroken from the fissured crag above. On 

 the slope beneath are small winding plots of corn, with intervals of pasture, and tufts of the 

 yellow iris. The coast is here formed of shelving crags and jutting promontories, there stretches 

 along in a winding beach of white sand on which the wavelets rush with gentle murmer. Flocks 



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