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low (hrub or hedge, and the female lays fix blueifli 
_grecn c?gs, (potted with black. 
Redwings, common Thrufires, and Fieldfares, 
abound fo much, and are killed in fuch numbers 
for the markets in Polifh Pruflia, that a tax has 
been paid for 30,000 at Dantzic only, in one 
feafon. 
The THROSTLE. 
The wing feathers arc ruft-colourcd at the bafe, on the 
infidc; the under part of its body is (potted, the fpots arc 
fhaped like the heads of arrows, with their points upward. 
This is one of our fined: fong birds, and 
fings the longed. It begins its melodious warb¬ 
ling early in the fpring, anJ continues un¬ 
til the end of autumn. Perched upon fomc 
high tree, it amufes us in our walks with its 
delightful fong. 
'With us the Thrufli is not gregarious, and 
though it remain in England all the year, 
podihly it may go from one part to another, 
at the approach of Winter, or retire into the 
woods. In FranceThrulhes are migratory,appear¬ 
ing Burgundy twice a year: firlt in April, 
and leaving it in May ; and again at the vintage, 
when 
