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 | | Its diminutive is mauviette, the modern table-name of the skylark, and perhaps mavis was in English originally the table-name of the thrush. |
 | | The second species to which the name applies is distinguished as the mistletoe-thrush, or, by corrupt abbreviation, the misselthrush.3 It is known also in many districts as the storm-cock, from its habit of singing in squally weather that silences almost all other birds, and holm-(i.e. |
 | | holly-) thrush; while the harsh cries it utters when angry or alarmed have given it other local names, as screech, shrite and skrike, all traceable to the Anglo-Saxon Scric.4 This is a larger species than the last, of paler tints, and conspicuous in flight by the white patches on its outer tail-feathers. |
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