. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. take whole booksto record them. The same bird may have tenor a dozen names ; consequently it is best to putthe Latin name after the familiar name of we will take the thrush family {Tiinii)and its singing master {Tiirdiis mitsicus). Wefind him here and there as a bird of passage,though he makes his home throughout Europegenerally. He is easy to raise and to accustomto confinement, but the cage must be large The hen bird builds her nest by preferencenear water. The black ilniish ( Iurdiis uifniia), a Euro-pean bird, c
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. take whole booksto record them. The same bird may have tenor a dozen names ; consequently it is best to putthe Latin name after the familiar name of we will take the thrush family {Tiinii)and its singing master {Tiirdiis mitsicus). Wefind him here and there as a bird of passage,though he makes his home throughout Europegenerally. He is easy to raise and to accustomto confinement, but the cage must be large The hen bird builds her nest by preferencenear water. The black ilniish ( Iurdiis uifniia), a Euro-pean bird, commonly called blackbird there,is a wary, cunning fellow, but not so wary thathe does not readily get accustomed to captivityin a cage. His whistle is lively, and he tries toimitate the songs of other birds. The femaleis very different in appearance from the male,being brown in color, while her mate is is not difficult to teach young thrushes tosing various times, proxided they are sung tothem morning and excning in a quiet room. 276 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. The Thrush Many remarkable anecdotes are told of thematernal love of the hen bird and her clever-ness in systematically driving cats and dogsfrom the vicinity of her young. Confined in largeaviaries, they make life a burden to other birds. Our American wood thrush {Tjirdits timste-limts) is an excellent vocalist, thetones having a rare quality ofrolling vibrance, sweet andplacid and full like thenotes of a flute sounded ^\some morning in theopen country air. Nextto the robin this is themost widely knownof the thrush family. If the Americanrobin {Alerula migra-toria) is not a domesticbird, we have but few, forhe is a part of our very lives. ^His matin song is familiar fromthe moment of remembrance, hisacquaintance leads him to our verydoors ; he seeks the apple tree nearestto the country house, where he and his matemay build their nest, that they may live closeto their curious friend — man. His song issweet and charg
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