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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e Thrushes.By the end of March the first brood is on the wing, andthe parents busy themselves with a new nest for thereception of their second family. These, too, are hatchedand on the wing by the middle of May, and then the wholefamily, young and old, leave their home to wander roundthe country until another January brings them back againto add their note of harmony to the winters wind. The upper parts are of a uniform ash brown, under partsbuf&sh white thickly spotted with dark brown. The sexesare alike in plumage. The young has the upper partsspotted with buff, and the spots below are much smaller.Length 11 in.; wing 6 in. THE SONG THRUSH Turdus musicus, Linnasus One of the first signs that winter is thinking of releasingits grasp, and that spring, if still some way off, is neverthe-less on the way, is the clear melodious song of the SongThrush. Soon after daybreak (having breakfasted off theearly worm) this bird may be heard in almost every garden 4 SONG THRUSHT Urdus music us
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The Song Thrush that can boast of a shrub large enough to conceal him andhis nest. Any sort of cultivated country forms his home,either the broad fields, scanty hedgerows, the carefully-cultivated garden of the wealthy, or even the small anddusty plot of the town-dweller. His food consists chiefly of insects, though worms forma considerable part of his diet, and snails are a delicacy ofwhich he is extremely fond. There must be few people who have not noticed ourbrown friend hopping down the garden path with hispeculiar sidelong leaps, now and then varied by two orthree quick short steps as he conveys a snail to hisfavourite abattoir. This usually consists of a moderate-sizedsmooth stone, on which the unfortunate snail is beaten tillhis house falls from him; when this is accomplished thereis a quick gulp, and he is gone! Thus refreshed, our friendwill mount a near-by twig, clean his bill by rubbing itseveral times on either side of his perch, preen and shakeout his feathers a bit, and

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