MISSEL THRUSH. 
MISSELTOE THEUSH. STOHM-COCK. 
MISSEL-BIBE. SHEITE. SHEIKE-COCK. HOLM THRU 6 H. 
PENN Y LLWIN, OE THE ANCIENT BBITISH. 
Turdus viscivoru's, Linnaeus. Latham. 
Merula viscivora, Selby. 
Turdus — A Thrush. Viscivorus. Viscus — The misseltoe. 
Voro —To devour. 
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This bird is a native of Europe, being found in Russia 
and Scandinavia generally, as also in Germany, France, 
Thuringia, and Italy; in Holland it is rare. It moves to 
the centre of the Continent from both extremes in the 
winter. 
In England it is plentiful in all parts of the country. 
In the south of Scotland it is not uncommon, but in the 
central parts it is very rare, and in the extreme north entirely 
unknown. 
In Ireland it is also generally distributed. 
In winter these birds, at all times permanently resident as 
a species, seem more numerous than at other seasons, so that 
it is thought that their numbers are added to by arrivals 
from more northern countries, such migration occurring 
towards the end of October. 
They certainly are of a pugnacious, not to sav of a predatory 
disposition, and are accordingly objects of dislike and assault 
to many of their feathered neighbours; they are also quarrelsome 
one with another. They are frequently seen in flocks of from 
a dozen to twenty, and from fifty to sixty or seventy; and 
m this case are often mistaken for Eielchares when ac a 
