missel thrush

[ mis-uh l ]

/ ˈmɪs əl /

Origin of missel thrush

First recorded in 1765–75

"Send for the weasel, then," said a missel-thrush, also perching in the hawthorn.

Wood Magic |Richard Jefferies
In the elder thicket little chaffinches were singing, and a missel-thrush gave late in the year a song of the April weather.

Folle-Farine |Ouida
The nest was in a birch visible from the garden, and that season seemed to be the missel-thrush's.

Nature Near London |Richard Jefferies
By the end of September the Missel-thrush has gathered into flocks of considerable size.

Among the Birds in Northern Shires |Charles Dixon

One of them was a noble bird, such as I had never seen before, of very fine bright plumage, and larger than a missel-thrush.

Essays on Modern Novelists |William Lyon Phelps

missel thrush

/ (ˈmɪsəl) /

a variant spelling of mistle thrush