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The Throttle or Song Thrum is efteerned for the compafs, variety,, 

 and fweetnefs of its notes, the chief of our birds of fong. It is of a 

 folitary difpofition, never affociating like the Fieldfare, or Red-wing 

 in flocks. In northern counties it is feen only during the fummer, as 

 it refides throughout the winter feafon in the more temperate parts of 

 Europe, 



This fpecies is inferior in lize to the Mi (Tel Thrum, being only about 

 nine inches in length, while that of the Miffel Thrum is eleven inches ; 

 it is alfo diftinguifhed among other characters by the form of the fpots 

 on the breaft and belly, thofe in the Miffel Thrum being roundim, or 

 oblong; in the Throftle fagittate, or iliaped like the head of an arrow 

 with the point directed upwards : and the whole placed longitudinally. 

 With thefe exceptions, there is a ftriking fimilarity between thefo 

 two birds. 



The Song Thrum breeds early in the year about the beginning of 

 .April, and a fecond brood fometimes in May. The neft is ufually 

 compofed of earth and mofs intermixed ; the eggs of a blueifli green, 

 marked with a few black fpots. 



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