Missel-Thrush by Edmund Hort New, 1900. Source: White, p. 363. Gilbert White wrote, "In the season of nidification the wildest birds are comparatively tame. Thus the ring-dove breeds in my fields, though they are continually frequented: and the missel-thrush, though most shy and wild in the autumn and winter, builds in my garden close to a walk where people are passing all day long" (250).
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Links to Related Material
- Richard Jefferies and other British Nature Writers — Gilbert White, William Cobbett, and W.H. Hudson
- Victorian Ornithologists
Bibliography
White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. Ed. Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. London and New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1900. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University of California Libraries. Web. 8 July 2023.
Created 8 July 2023