not lined, iliere can bo no doubt iis to tho identity, as it was 
remarked by otliers.” 
Xr. The Itev. J. G. Wood says:* * * § “I once took a Blackbird’s 
nest, in Avhicli the eggs were so curiously marked, that no one could 
have decided whether they belonged to a Blackbird or a Thrush.” 
XII. Mr. J. T. Green writes :t “It may interest some of my 
fellow-readers of ‘ Science Gossip ’ to know that I have found a 
Blackbird’s nest with four eggs and five Thrushes, in it.” 
XIII. Iho Kev. A. C. Smith of Caine, in speaking of the 
Acirious cases of two birds laying in the same nest, says:;); “The 
Blackbiid will occasionally lay eggs closely resembling those of 
the Song Thrush, thereby proving tho affinity of the various 
members of the genus Tunlue. Indeed, one such egg of the 
Idackbird, taken by myself in this place, I forwarded, many years 
since, to Mr. llewitson, who thought it worthy of a place in the 
last edition of his work; but, then, all tho eggs in that nest were 
alike in colouring and marking.” From this description it 
seems at least possible that the eggs were tho produce of a 
hybrid union. 
^ Xn . Ihe Kev. J. C. Atkinson, in speaking of the spots on 
Blackbirds eggs, says : Sometimes they disappear altogether, or 
voiy nearly, and leave the egg with a strong resemblance to tho 
little spotted Thrush’s egg (Yarrell, vol. i. p. 204; llewitson, 
Aol. i. [). G3). lo such an extent is this tho case, that a year or 
two since I was misled into assuming that four eggs which I found 
in a ncot, ^vith all the characters of a Blackbird’s nest, must most 
ccitainlji, from their colour and markings, bo assigned to a Thrush 
original, and not to a Blackbird.” 
X\ . In Dresser s ‘ Birds of Europe ’ § appear some observations 
quoted from the ‘Ibis’ for 18G3, to which magazine they were 
communicated by Count Salvadori in 1863. They arc to the effect 
that, in Xovember, 1861, he purchased a live bird in Florence, 
A\hich, so far as its size, colour, bill, legs, feet, and upper parts were 
conceincd, appeared to be a Song Thrush ; but the lower parts were 
tdmost entirely black, except that the edge of each feather was 
* ‘Xatiiral History of Birds,’ p. 140. 
t ‘Science Gossip,’ 3Iarch, 1S79, p. 67. 
•t ‘ Zoologist,’ February, ISSO, p. 59. 
§ Article ‘‘ Song Thmsh” (vol. ii. p. 15). 
