Rast .Mait), S SE). L. 
Pen y Ikwyn, or the matter of the coppice, as it will 
drive all the leffer fpecies of thrufhes from it. 
The antients believed that the maffeltoe (the bafis of 
bird-lime) could not be propagated but by the ber- 
ries that had paft through the body of this bird; 
and on that is founded the proverb of Turdus malum 
Sibi cacat. Oe 
It may be obferved, that this is the largett bird, 
Britifh or foreign (within our knowledge) that fings 
or has any melody in its note: the notes of all 
fuperior being either fcreaming, croaking, chat- 
tering, 8&c. the pigeon kind excepted, whofe flow 
plaintive continued monotone has fomething {weet-_ 
ly foothing in it. YZhompfon (the naturalift’s poet) 
in the concert he has formed among the feathered 
tribe, allows the imperfection of voice in the larger 
birds, yet introduces them as ufeful as the bafe in 
chorus, notwithftanding it is unpleafing by itfelf. 
The jay, the rook, the daw, 
And each harfh pipe (difcordant heard alone) 
Aid the full concert: while the ftock-dove breaths 
A melancholy murmur fhro’ the whole*. 
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* Seafons. Spring. 1. 606, 
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