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SONG-THRUSH, or MAVIS, 
Description and Character. 
Hp HE common Song-Thru lli is fomewhat 
1'Ts than the hlacK-Bird : the upper fur- 
tacw Ci tne body is or an olive colour, with a 
mixture of yellow in the wings ; the breaft yel- 
3 o with, Spotted with dufky fpots, and the belly 
wliit'e. 
There are three or four other forts ofThrufhea 
found in England ; as, fir ft, the Great Thrulh, 
caned the lirTel-Bird, Meafie-Taw or Shrite, 
which in the colour of the breaft and belly a- 
grees with the Song-Thru fti, but is a bigger 
bird : he is very beautiful to look at, but not 
valued for finging, therefore feldoin kept in a 
cage. 
i tie fecond fort, called the Red -Wing, Swine- 
Pipe, or Wind-Thrufii, is in ill ape and co- 
lour fo like the Song-Thruih, that they are hard 
to be diftinguiihed, only the latter hath more 
and greater fpots on the breaft and belly, and 
is fomewhat bigger : this kind is in no elleera 
for ilnging. It is a bird of paffage, that fhifts 
places according to the feafon of the year j but 
whether it goes, is not to us perfectly known. 
