Missel shell river, had fires built in the lodges and my skins exposed to dry.
The natural song is very like the awkward attempts of a country boy with a bad musical ear to whistle the notes of the missel thrush.
In confinement this bird is lodged like the missel thrush, and is much more worthy of being kept, as its voice is more beautiful, its song is more varied, and being smaller it makes less dirt.
Perched on the top of a tree in the woods, the missel thrush begins, in the month of February, to utter his melancholy but musical warblings, consisting of five or six broken strains, and continues singing for four or five months.
In confinement it is treated like the missel thrush, but it is generally only kept as a decoy bird.
When wild the misselthrush is found all over Europe, but more in the north than the south.
I was pleased to see the bold, masterful missel thrush, the stormcock as it is often called; but this bird breeds and sings in the early spring, when the weather is still tempestuous, and had long been silent when we saw it.
The Missel Thrush, so called from its fondness for the mistletoe, is larger than the common or song thrush, less melodious and not so common in England, but well known upon the continent of Europe.
The favourite spot chosen by the missel thrush is the fork of a tree in an orchard, where lichens are large and plentiful enough to serve as a covering for the nests.
They breed in Norway and Sweden, and nest very early in the year, and their nest seems to be like a missel thrush's, and is placed in fir-trees.
In a short time they saw its mate flying about from tree to tree, calling piteously; and after a little hunting Frank found a nest, which was like a missel thrush's, and placed in the fork of an oak branch.
Were it not for its fine tone, therefore, his song would be as monotonous as that of the Missel Thrush, which in modulation it greatly resembles.
This has been compared to the scream of the Missel Thrush; but Macgillivray says it seems to him more like the croak of a frog.
The Fieldfare is little inferior in size to theMissel Thrush, with which, however, it is not likely to be confounded even at a distance, owing to the predominant bluish tinge of its upper plumage.
When flying, it seems scarcely larger than a Missel Thrush; but it is more slender in shape, and its wings are much longer.
This nest was of ordinary shape and size, its material being of the same kind as others, and securely fastened amongst the prongs of the branch like a Missel Thrush's.
That there's a picture of a missel thrush on her nest, as large as life an' twice as natural.
Her garden was her nest and she was like a missel thrush.
We've got to drive five miles across Missel Moor before we get to the Manor.
If tha' was a missel thrush an' showed me where thy nest was, does tha' think I'd tell any one?
She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest.
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