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THRUSH. 
THROSTLE. SOTO THRUSH. COMMON THRUSH. MATIS. 
Turdus musicus , 
Merula musica, 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Selby. 
Turdus —A Thrush. 
Musicus — Musical. 
This favourite bird is a native of Europe generally, being 
common, during summer, in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and 
Bussia, from whence it extends over Germany, France, Italy, 
and Greece. In Asia Minor it is also to be seen. 
It is dispersed over the whole of our islands—in England, 
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Hebrides, the Orkneys, and 
Shetland, frequenting a variety of situations—the wood and 
the garden, the thicket and the meadow, the shrubbery and 
the lawn, the plantation and the cliff. The beautiful song 
of the Thrush may be continually heard, even in the parks 
in London, and in Kensington Gardens. 
It remains with us throughout the year, but in the winter 
many additions to the numbers of our native birds are made 
from the northern parts of Europe, from whence they are 
driven by the inclemency of the climate. A north-east wind 
is their ‘favouring gale,’ and having recruited their strength 
for some days after their arrival, they move still farther 
southwards in our island. 
The Thrush is lively and sprightly in all its actions, neat 
in its shape, harmless in its habits, pretty, though plain, in 
its plumage, and familiar in its disposition. It is not, strictly 
speaking, gregarious, though not a few are frequently seen 
together. The author of the ‘Journal of a Naturalist,’ Mr. 
Knapp, gives the following interesting account of a pair of 
these birds:—‘We observed this summer two Common Thrushes 
