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The Mocking Thrufli has great courage, and 
is not afraid of attacking birds much fuperior in 
icrt fze. 
It is however very tender, and found in thofe 
parts of America which are to the north of Ca- 
. rolina, only in the fummer feafon ; in the more 
fouthern climates it continues the whole year, 
an building its neft in June ; the hen lays fix 
, eggs. 
y It often builds in fruit trees, and frequents 
the neighbourhood of houfes; it is a familiar 
' V - bird, often fmging melodioully, perched on a 
f a chimney top ; yet it will forfakc its eggs on per- 
n Sfc e iving that its neft is difcovered. 
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a- The STONE THRUSH, 
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The head is blue, the tail ruft colour, the bodyreddifh, 
viih fmall dufky fpots; the two middle tall feathers are 
g'ditfhy, the reft are reddifh, except at the very tips, 
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by It is found on the mountains of Switzerland, 
blf of Auftria, of Tyrol, and the Alps, 
kt This bird receives its name from the places 
lts which it frequents, for it generally ftands upon a 
0, tftone ; it appears to be very diftruftful and fufpi- 
cious, and teems careful to keep out of the reach 
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