12 RING OUZEL 
For the legend of the Lhondoo and Ushag-reasht, see 
under ‘Golden Plover.’ 
The Blackbird is abundant over the British Isles, except 
Shetland ; its numbers in Ireland being greatly increased 
in winter. 
TURDUS TORQUATUS, Linn. RING OUZEL. 
Although the Isle of Man appears in many places well 
suited for its summer residence, the Ring Ouzel has never 
hitherto been recognised here as anything but a passing 
migrant. As such it is probably of regular, if not very 
plentiful, occurrence. Dr. Crellin, writing from Castletown 
on 19th June 1862, says: ‘I rather think that I saw a Ring 
Ouzel yesterday in a small glen in the mountain near the 
same place (where a Twite had been obtained). There were 
several of them last September on this mountain. I am 
not certain whether they breed here or not. I will endeavour 
to ascertain before I return home.’ But in the letters of 
which Mr. Moffat has copies there is no further reference. 
Mr. J. C. Crellin, years ago, saw numbers in the south at 
migration time; in September 1882 the late Mr. W. J. 
Cannell shot one near Port St. Mary; and on 12th Septem- 
ber 1901, after noting one or two on the hill pasture at 
Scard at the head of Colby Glen, I met with a flock of 
twenty or thirty on the steep and rough mountain-side 
above Lag-ny-Keilley, which chuckling like Blackbirds and 
moving wildly and shyly from stone to stone, followed each 
other over the rock-encumbered slope to the heaths at the 
summit of the ridge. Mr. Kermode records one shot at 
the Dog Mills, Bride, in October 1878; two, 13th and 14th 
November 1882, in Michael; some seen at Skyhill, May 
