IXTKlUmKEUlNU OK ]!LACK1)IKD AND TllUUSII. 
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inturost to warrant their appearance in print in the shape of a brief 
supplementary i>aper. They are as follow : — 
XIX. ^Ir. tJ. 11. fJurney, Jnn., has kindly called my attention 
to a case mentioned by Thompson (‘Xatural History of Ireland,’ 
vol. iii. App. p. 45G), who .says that in the summer of 1841), a female 
Thrush and a male Jilackbird paired and built a nest in a small shrub 
at Waterloo Cottage, near Ayr. In June, three young were produced. 
They were “ parti-coloured, having some black spots, tlie size of a 
si.\j)ence, on their breasts.” Their note was unusual. Both p)arents 
Jed them. I’hese facts seem to have been supp)licd to Thompson 
by two eye-Avitnesses, Avhom he names. 
XX. In 1851), Mr. Kdward XcAvman, the then-editor of the 
‘Zoologist,’ contributed to that magazine (a’oI. xvii. j). G722) the 
folloAving A-ague and unsatisfactory sUitement, that early in the 
s[)ring of 1853 a dead '1'hru.sh (supposed to be a hen) A\'as “found.” 
it is not stated Avhens or by Avhom. Xext morning a Thrush’s 
nest AA’as found in a Laurel bush, and on this a Thrush regularly sat. 
Whilst so doing she av;as regularly fed by a cock Blackbird, but no 
hen Blackbird Avas seen. Young Avere eventually raised. After 
they had left the nest, the Thrush began losing, and in time found 
another mate of her oAvn species, and raised tAVo more broods in 
the same garden that spring. T’he cock Blackbird and his mate 
lost so much time by these proceedings on the part of the former, 
that they Avere in a muddle all that spring. For rearing their first 
brood, they took possession of an old Thrush’s nest of the previous 
year. Their second nest AA-as very poorly constructed, and the third 
still Averse. The latter contained only tAvo eggs, of Avhich but one 
Avas hatched. This record, Avhich is by no means satisfactory in 
itself, must pass noAv for Avhatever it may appear to be Avorth. In 
any case, it is not strictly speaking a case of interbreeding, though 
bearing thereon. 
XXI. The llev. J. C. Atkin-son, Avriting in the ‘Zoologist’ 
(vol. xvii. p. G564), says, in 1850 he saw a Blackbird leave her 
n(!st in a hedge as he piassed. On looking in he saAv a typical, 
grass-lined Blackbird’s nest, containing four typical and undoubted 
Thrush's eggs. 
XXII. The liev J. C. Atkinson, Avriting from Harb}’ Parsonage, 
’i'orkshire, on April 10th, 1875, .says (‘Zoologist,’ x s.s., p. 44-5G) 
there Avas then in his g-arden a typical gnuss-lined Blackbird’s nest, 
