sh THE NATURAL HISTORY 

the banks, by the fide of ftreams, and are very 
~noify when. difturbed,, their nefts are placed at 
the bottom of bufhes clofe to the ground, con- 
fruiged, very, much, like, the, Blackbird’s, ans. they 
lay five eggs. | 
They feed on berries, and ined 8, they. are. fond: 
ef ivy berries, and of grapes ; in ¢ vance, during the: 
vintage, they get very fat, aqc, their feihis then 
“rich, and, juicy. They, feed too upon fuails, ani 
are_very dextrous. in. breaking. their fhells on. a, 
fone, to.enable them to get at their contents, 
Tas REED THRUSH. 
“The veins on the upper part-of:the body is ofia red. 
difh. brown, beneath, off a dingy. white; the wing feat! aa 
edged.with.a reddifh. brown, | 
It inhabits Europe, particularly the marfhy 
parts, where reeds grow, and climbs up them im 
“the fame manner as Woodpeckers climb trees ;_ it: 
builds its neft fufpended from three reeds, faften- 

ed together, or on mofly hillocks amongft'the reeds 
-andrufhes. The male fings continually, whilft 
the female fits; from which it has been called by: 
fome ihe Water Nightingale. a 
The Cuantine Turusy is found-in the 
sslian i provinces of China; it is there-called the 
Nightingale, 


