
4 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
It breeds in holes in the banks, and Jays five 
white eggs tinzed with red; the neft is curioully 
niade of hay, and fibres of roots, and lined with — 
dead oak leaves, having an entrance of green 
~ mofs, : 
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_ . The beak in this Genus is fraitifh, the upper mandible 
alittle bending towards the point, and flightly notched. | 
The noftrils are naked, in fome fpecies they are half coe 
vered above with a little membrane or fkin, 
The corners of the mouth are rane’, with a few flene- 
der hairs. | 
The tongue is a little co at the thd; >? 7 
The outmoft toe adheres as’ far as the firfl joint tothe — 
middle toc, 
= Bhe: fen fpecies: is the MISSEL-THRUSH. 
Tts back is dufky, its neck and cheeks are white, or 
yellowifh white, {potted with brown ; the bafe of the lower. 
mandible, and the gape, yellow, the other parts of the man- 
_- ible dutky. 
Tt inhabits Europe, in England it ftays all the 
year, but in fome parts it is a bird of paflage. | 
The Miffel birds feed on berries, of various 
kinds ; ; the holly, ivy; hawthorn, and particularly 
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