SONG-THRUSH, OR MAVIS. jg 
the 5 th or 6th of April, notwithftanding it had 
been a cold Spring, which were well feathered 
and at lea ft twelve days old. 
i he 1 nrufh builds in woods or orchards 
fo me times in a thick hedge, near the ground! 
Ihe outfideof her neft confifts of line foft 
green roofs, interwoven with dead grafs, hay, 
&c. The made very curioufly plaiftered with 
cow-dung; not daubed, as fome have {hid, but 
with beiter flcdi than many of our plaifterers 
could do the fame work. Note, The Black- 
Bird always plaifters with clay or mud, this bird 
always with cow-dung ; the other lays a cover- 
ing Inft fluff in the infide to lay her etws 
upon ; the Thrufli lavs her’s upon the bare infide 
or plaiftering, but not till it is thoroughly dry; 
five or fix in number, of a bluifh green colour, 
fpeckled with a few final! black fpots, chiefly at 
the biggeft end. 
h lie hollow of a complete neft I meafurcd 
was two inches and a half deep; the dia- 
meter of the infide at the top four inches ; it 
was exa&ly round, and the whole neft weighed 
one ounce and three quarters. — I examined two 
more at the fame time, which were nearly of 
the fame dimenfions with this, but in weight, 
one three ounces, the other three and an half. 
The length of a full-grown bird, from the point 
of the bill to the end of the tail, is nine inches j 
of which the bill is one ? and the tail three and 
