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the Feathered Tribes (1834), Mr. Mudie represents the Thrush as carrying food 
for its young in the stomach instead of the bill. Mr. W. adds,—“ If in England 
the Thrushes carry food to their young in their stomachs, I can affirm that in 
this neighbourhood they are not accustomed to do so.” 
Mr. Weir says that— 
“ Wishing to know how soon Thrushes would build after having been deprived of their young, 
I took four ripe ones out of a nest on June 6, 1837. Having caught the female, I pulled the 
feathers out of the tail, and set her at liberty. On June 21 I discovered her sitting upon four 
eggs, of which 1 deprived her, and on July 8 she again had a nest with eggs. 1 allowed her to 
bring up her family unmolested.’’—p. 139. 
Mr. Weir records an . instance of a u most beautiful pure white [Sky] Lark 
which frequented the farm of Tailend, belonging to Colonel S. Norvall, Esq., of 
Boghall, during the months of August and September, 1835. It disappeared 
about the end of October.” 
“ The eggs of all small birds are delicious; those of the Sky Lark, Meadow 
Pipit, Wheatear, Thrush, and Corn Bunting, I have often, when a boy, eaten in 
the Hebrides, after being roasted in peat ashes.” The ancient Romans, during 
their age of luxury, were in the habit of giving immense sums of money for a 
small dish of savory fish, or other curious dainty. Italians will condescend to 
eat a fry of Nightingales’ tongues, whereas the rest of the bird is by far too 
gross for their refined taste. The French epicures feed on the hind legs of Frogs, 
which are by no means destroyed by the operation of “ plucking,” but are then 
kindly restored to their native marshes. How many Wrens’ nests are despoiled 
of their eggs in order to afford Mr. MacGillivray a satisfactory breakfast on a 
Summer morning ? 
Owing to the recent discoveries in the British species of Motacitta , Mr. M’G/s 
is the first work in which those discoveries have been incorporated. The species 
are :—1. Grey-headed Oatear, Budytes fiava , Musign. ; 2. Green-headed Oatear, 
Budytes Bayi , Musign. ; 3. Grey-and-white Wagtail, Moiacilla alba , Linn. ; 
4. Pied Wagtail, Motacilla Yarrellii , Gould ; 5. Grey-and-yellow Wagtail, 
Motacitta boarula , Linn. The first species is the common Motacitta fiava of 
Continental—but not of British—writers, it being abundant abroad, but recently 
discovered to be rare with us; the second is the Yellow Wagtail, Motacitta fiava , 
of English—and Bergeronnette flaveole , Motacitta flaveola , of Continental— 
writers; the third is Bergeronnette grise , Motacitta alba, of the Continent, some 
specimens of which our author has received from the South of Scotland; the 
fourth is the common Pied Wagtail of Britain, which Mr. Gould says is only 
found in Scandinavia in addition to the British islands; the fifth is the Grey 
Wagtail, Motacilla boarula , of British and Foreign naturalists. 
The Hedge Dunnock ( Accentor modularis ) is said (p. 255) to use a great 
