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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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^ of entering traps ;they also show considerable cunning in upsetting some forms of net-traps, especiallythat known to bird-catchers as the Caravan: indeed it is rare to find any butbirds of the year caught by this ingenious contrivance. This fact is perhaps ratheran advantage than otherwise to the trapper, for young birds not only become morerapidly reconciled to captivity, but naturally last longer, as song-birds, than thosewhich have spent several years of their lives in freedom. All the typical Thrushes build open cup-shaped nests, the walls of which arestrongly built, usually with a lining of mud, clay, or cow-dung, and in most caseswith a thick outer lining concealing the mud: the eggs usually number from fourto six and, more frequently than not, are of some shade of green marked withsome shade of brown. A. G. BUTLER.
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The Missel Thrush. Family— TURD ID. E. Subfamily— TURBINE. The Missel Thrush. Turd us viscivonis, LiNN. THIS, the largest of our resident Thrushes, breeds throughout the suitabledistricts of temperate Europe, from Norway southward to Spain, andeven to Northern Africa. Eastward, its range extends through Turkestanto the North-western Himalayas and Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is resident inmany of the milder regions, but the greater number winter in SouthernEurope and Northern Africa, the Siberian birds migrating to Northern India,Persia, and Africa north of the Sahara. In Great Britain the Missel Thrush is generally distributed throughoutEngland and Wales; in Ireland also, since 1800, it has become tolerablycommon; in Scotland its range has gradually extended northwards throughoutmost of the Hebrides; in the Orkneys it has appeared after easterly gales,but from Shetland it has not been recorded. The upper parts of the adult bird are greyish olive brown, slightlydarker on the head, a

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