IBook §>econti. 



AVES. 



Order PASSERES. Fam. TURDIDJE. 



Sub-Fam. TUEDINM. 



MISSEL THRUSH. 



Turdus viscivorus, L. 



The Mountain Thrush or ' Shrite ' is fairly distributed over 

 Lakeland in the breeding season, and many individuals cross 

 the mountain tops on their autumnal migrations. Notwith- 

 standing the courage which this bird displays in defence of its 

 young, at other times it is frequently plundered by the Starling, 

 which finds it less laborious to snatch the earthworms of the 

 garden lawn from the Missel Thrush than to subsist by its own 

 exertions. 



SONG THEUSH. 



Turdus musicus, L. 



This species is known all over Lakeland as the Throstle, a 

 term of some local antiquity, since we find it mentioned in the 

 Naworth Accounts as early as 1612: 'A curlue, vj d. Another 

 and iij throssels, viij d.' Probably few of the general public 

 realise the extent to which this delightful songster is an immi- 

 grant, arriving in our midst during the early part of the year, 

 and commencing to practise the summer songs in the month of 

 February. Mr. W. Duckworth forwarded to me a wing of the 

 Song Thrush, with the information that the ss. Topic, Captain 

 M. Ferguson, fell in with a large flock of migrating birds when 



