THE NATURAL HISTORY 
It breeds in boles in the banks, and lays five 
white eggs tinged with red ; the neft is curiouily 
made of hav, and fibres of roots, and lined with 
dead oak leaves, having an entrance of green 
mofs. 
Genus 69. T U R D U S. 
The THRUSH. 
The beak in this Genus is flraitifh, the upper mandible 
a little bending towards the point, and Ilightly notched. 
The nofirils are naked, in fome fpecies they are half co¬ 
vered above with a little membrane or fkin. 
The corners of the mouth are furnifhed with a few flen- 
der hairs. 
The tongue Is a little jagged at the end. 
Theoutmoft toe adheres as far as the full joint to the 
middle toe. 
The firfl fpecies is the MISSEL-THRUSH. 
Its back is dufky, its neck and cheeks are white, or 
yellowifli white, fpotted with brown ; the bafe of the lower 
mandible, and the gape, yellow, the other parts of the man¬ 
dible dulky. 
It inhabits Europe, in England it flays all the 
year, but in fome parts it is a bird of pafTage. 
The MiHel birds feed on berries, of various 
kinds ; the holly, ivy, hawthorn, and particularly 
the 
