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This is a British Species, but shifts its quarters according to the 

 season, nor is it, as we believe, by any means common. In many 

 parts of this kingdom only seen in spring and autumn,* as it were on 

 the passage elsewhere, rarely staying in any place more than a fort- 

 night, and scarcely in greater numbers than five or six together. 

 They breed in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, also in Wales, Cumberland, 

 and Scotland, as well as Dartmoor, in Devonshire, where they are 

 observed to build on the sides of streams, on the ground, or side of 

 a bush ; the nest not unlike that of a Blackbird, as well as the eggs, 

 which are five in number; are met with also in the mountainous 

 parts of Ireland -t The food is much the same as in that bird, 

 including snails, of which it is very adroit in breaking the shells on 

 a stone, to get at the contents ; but in want of snails, will feed on 

 ivy berries. 



This bird is met with in many parts of the Old Continent, both 

 in the warmer and colder regions, as well as in Africa and Asia. 

 It comes into Burgundy, in France, in small flocks in October, 

 staying only two or three weeks, and again in April or May. Met 

 with as high as Lapmark, but does not inhabit either Russia or 

 Siberia ; is however seen about the Caspian Sea, and in Persia. 



22.— GORGET THRUSH. 



Hausse-col noir, Lev ail. Afr. iii. 53. pi. 110. 



SIZE of the Ring-Ouzel. Bill black; irides reddish brown; 

 general colour of the plumage black above, beneath white, but the 

 black passes across the breast in the same manner as the white does 

 in the Ring-Ouzel ; tips of all but the two middle tail feathers white ; 

 tail rounded at the end ; legs black. 



* By some called the Michaelmas Blackbird ; in some parts Rock or Mountain Ouzel, 

 and Tor Ouzel.— Orn. Diet. f Montagu. 



