the female had began to lay ; the female fhortly afterwards 
forfook the place, but the male continued to refort to the 
fame fpot till it was killed ; the neft was compofed of dry 
grafs, mofs, and fmall fticks, lined with mud and a few fea- 
thers intermixed with hair ; it was four inches and a half in 
diameter and three inches deep ; its eggs are faid to be of a 
blue green colour fpotted with black. 
The note of this bird is very fimilar to that of the Song 
Thrufh, except being drawn out at the termination into a kind 
of whiftle ; in the winter during its flight it frequently utters 
^ piping monotonous note. It feeds on the berries of privet, 
holly, and white-thorn j alfo, on fnails, flugs, beetles, and 
other infeds. 
Its provincial n^mes are Swinepipe, Wind^Thrufh, Red^ 
Thrufh, or Throftle. 
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