590 
VI. In tlic same perioaical,-^ “ G. T. B.” of Bradford AbBas, 
■writes tliat he has several times found nests at the tops of Fir-trees 
built of sticks outside, lined -with moss, hay, &c., like Blackbirds, 
arid containing eggs like those of the Thrush, but ■with pale-reddish 
markings instead of black. In no case has he seen the birds. 
Mr. H. Kerr of Bacup, writing a little later,t points out what 
seems obvious from the description given aboAm, namely, that the 
nests and eggs Avere those of the Missel Thrush. He thinks 
Blackbirds and Thrushes Avould never pair together. “ G. T. B., 
hoAvever,;}; someAvhat indignantly denies this, and says : “ The egg» 
I saAV Avere pale blue speckled like a Blackbird’s, and spotted Avith 
the deep claret markings of the Song Thrush as well.” Of the 
nest, he says that it Avas in a hedge about six feet from the ground . 
“ The outside Avas rather roughly constructed of Mosses inter Avoven 
Avith Grasses, and the lining Avas grass cemented Avith mud. 
VII. In May, 1 877, Mr. H. Eichardson of KeAvcastle shoAved me 
a Thrush’s egg, one of three Avhich he took from an unlined nest, 
apparently belonging to a Blackbird, near that city. 
VIII. Mr. J. T. Gumersall of Gt. Ayton, Yorkshire, records § 
that, being out on a Avalk late in March, he saw two Blackbirds and 
a Thrush fly from a llaAvthorn bush. Looking into it he “ found 
a true Blackbird’s nest built of old hay, &c., Avith a lining of mud, 
and then relined Avith hay, but, curious to say, it contained three 
eggs of the Thrush ; there Avere no signs of their being crossed.’ 
°IX. A. F. Griffith of Cambridge Avrites in ‘Science Gossip :’|1 
“ Last year, on May 9th, I found a Blackbird’s nest containing three 
Blackbirds’ eggs and a Thrush’s.” A Blackbird sat upon the nest, 
but he is not aAvare Avhether or not the eggs Avere hatched. 
X. In the same periodical,^ S. A. Brennan of Allan Eock, 
Co. Tyrone, Avrites : “In the Island of HoAvth my daughter saAV 
a cock Blackbird sitting on a nest Avhere, previously, a hen Thrush 
had been sitting. There Avere young ones in the nest, Avhich Avas 
« ‘ Science Gossip,’ February, 1878, p. 43. 
t ‘Science Gossip,’ May, 1878, p. 191. 
it ‘Science Gossip,’ January, 1879. ^ 
§ ‘ Science Gossip,’ August, 1878, p. 189, and ‘ Natural History Jouina , 
May, 1878, p. 72. 
II ‘ Science Gossip,’ September, 1878, p. 209. 
IT ‘ Science Gossip,’ November, 1878, p. 262. 
