text:  It is obvious that the description could not apply to our common house sparrow the habits of which are certainly the reverse of solitary or pensive; and Mr Waterton is undoubtedly correct in referring it to the Blue or Solitary Thrush--a bird not found in this country but common in Spain Italy and the south of France and still more so in the Levant--the _Petrocincla cyanea_ of scientific naturalists and the _Passera solitaria_ of the Italians