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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
at last prevailed ; they tore the nest to pieces, and swallowed 
the young alive." Bell — referring to the passage where 
White says " it builds in my garden close to a walk where 
people are passing all day long " — said that they still 
nested every year in the same spot. Bell occupied White's 
house. 
Munn relates that once when climbing up to a nest 
which had young, one of the old birds flew against him, 
hitting him a considerable blow in the back, evidently with 
the object of diverting his attention from the young. 
Miss Yonge ^ has a story told by Warden Barter, of 
Winchester, that " a pair of missel-thrush, seeing a peacock 
too near their nest, charged full at him, and actually 
knocked him down." 
She makes the odd mistake of giving " House Screech " 
as a local name for this bird, which she has evolved from 
" Holm Screech " by an obvious transformation : the name 
" Holm Screech " extends from Cornwall to Sussex. The 
name " Weather " is given as a Hampshire name by the 
Rev. T. Woodhouse, formerly Vicar of Ropley, in Bull's 
" Birds of Herefordshire." 
2. Turdus musiais. Song-Thrush. 
Throstle. Mavis. 
" When rosy plumelets tuft the larch 
And rarely pipes the mounted thrush." 
Ten?tyson^s ''''In Memoriainr 
A very common resident throughout the county and 
Isle of Wight. 
* "John Keble's Parishes." Charlotte M. Yonge. 1898. 
