4 SONG THRUSH 
summer the young families are very conspicuous on the 
uplands, as they flit over the rough land and along the 
stone walls with harsh notes. 
In autumn Missel Thrushes tend to gather into parties, 
or small flocks, which very likely causes them sometimes to be 
confused with Fieldfares; but it is doubtful if their number 
is substantially increased by immigration at that season, 
and the bird seems to be individually as well as specifically 
a resident here. 
It rarely appears, at least under its specific name, in the 
Manx lighthouse records. One was caught at Langness, 
5th October 1886, and twelve are reported there fifteen 
days later. I have noted it on the Calf of Man, but do 
not know whether it breeds on that islet. : 
A white specimen was reported in the north in 1903 
(Kermode). 
It is now generally common in Ireland and Galloway, as 
in England. It is well distributed on the mainland of 
Scotland, but still fails, at least as a breeding species, to 
reach most of the outlying islands. 
TURDUS MUSICUS, Linn. SONG THRUSH, 
Bic TurusH (Peel). (The Hedge Sparrow is there ‘Little Thrush.’) 
Manx, Lhon. (Cf. Scotch Gaelic, Zonag; Irish, Lon= 
Blackbird according to O’Reilly.) Treshlen (M. S. D.), 
doubtless a corruption of English Throstle. 
Townley, who visited the Isle of Man in 1789, says in 
his journal, under date of 18th July, ‘I never was in any 
country where Blackbirds and Throstles were seen or heard 
in such numbers as in this neighbourhood’ (Douglas). 
On 3rd December he hears from the pier of that town a 
Throstle on the hill across the harbour sing for half an 
