REDWING 7 
‘The Miller of Ballure! the Miller of Ballure ! 
He goes to Ramsey 
Every Saturday, 
Going on the spree ! 
Taking mulcture twice ! 
Taking mulcture twice !’ 
The Song Thrush is abundant in all the neighbouring 
parts of Britain, becoming, however, scarcer in winter in 
England, and even, according to Mr. Ussher, in the North 
of Ireland, in many parts of which country, however, its 
numbers are then greatly increased by immigration. 
TURDUS ILIACUS, Linn. REDWING. 
The names Win(d) Thrush and Snowbird are probably applied to 
the Redwing also. 
As in other parts of Britain the Redwing is here a 
regular visitor during the winter. It frequents the lowland 
pasture-lands, and the plantations in their vicinity, rather 
than the upland haunts of the Fieldfare, and being smaller 
and less noisy than that bird, and closely resembling the 
Song Thrush, attracts little observation. 
It is easily tamed by frost, and quickly perishes if it is 
prolonged. Though under ordinary circumstances a very 
shy bird, during snow in February 1900 two appeared in 
my garden at Castletown close under the windows of the 
house. It is frequent at our lighthouses: at Langness, 
on several dates in the autumn of 1882, numbers were 
killed. Mr. Kermode records that on 19th October 1889 
he caught at Ramsey one which in an exhausted state was 
beating against his ighted window. Mr. Crellin (Y. LZ. M., 
iil, 382) notes two on 26th September—an early date. 
On the same day of the month, in another year, two 
