SONG-THRUSH, OR MAVIS 
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provided it be not fait ; or you may by dewe-s 
entirely wean them from flcth, and give “hem 
only bread and. hemp-feed ; but I approve of 
ILbi, mixed witn bread, as the beft food. Give 
them freflt water twice a-weefc to wadi them 
felves; otherwifc they will not thrive : ifthev 
are kept dirty, it will give them the cramp, to 
which they are very fubjedt. Good viftuals 
water, and clean lodging, are the beft means to 
prevent it. 
The Thrufit, when in the fields, feeds on in- 
feeds and Snails, as all'o berries of white thorn 
and mifletoe. 
There is another kind of the Thrufh, calk 
ecl the MISSEL^IRD, from its feeding on the 
berries of the mifletoe. 
Inis bird, in the colour and fpots of the. 
bread and belly, agrees with the Song-Thrulh; 
but is a larger bird, and very rare to be feen. 
'1 hey build their neft in a thicket, near where 
plenty of mifletoe is ; or in iome pit, it being a 
very folitary fort of bird : They make as large 
a nefl as a Jay, and lay as big an egg j they build 
commonly with rotten twigs the cutiide of their 
nefl, and the infide is dead grafs, or rnofs that 
they pull froiil- trees. This bird delights migh* 
