cending oblique bar ; the wing-feathers pale brown on the
outer web, brownish black on the inner web, with dark brown
ends, the shafts black: the four central tail-feathers uniform
pale brown ; the others darker in the webs, but lighter at
the ends, and of these the outer tail-feathers are the lightest.
The chin and throat is white; from the lower edge of the
under mandible descends a narrow dark streak ; the neck,
breast, and all the under surface, white, tinged on the breast
and flanks with yellow brown, all the feathers having a
black semilunar tip ; before the wing, on each side, the
brown colour of the back extends a little forward toward
the breast; anterior under wing-coverts white at the base,
and black at the tip ; under tail-coverts white ; under surface
of the tail-feathers greyish brown, the shafts white ; legs
and toes pale brown, the claws rather lighter.
This bird having been killed in Hampshire, was named
after White of Selborne by my friend T. C. Eyton, Esq.
INSESSORES.
EENTIROSTR E S
MERUL1DE.
TH E F IE LD FA R E .
Turdus pilaris, The Fieldfare
Merula
Turdus
P enn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 404.
Montagu, Ornith. Diet.
B ewick, British Birds, vol. i.p . 121.
Thrush, F lem. Brit. An. p. 65.
S elby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 160.
J enyns, Brit. Vert. p. 99.
M G ould, Birds of Europe, pt. viii.
Merle litorne, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 163.
T h e F i e l d f a r e is a well-known migratory Thrush that
comes to us from the North, and is one of the latest if not
the last species that makes its annual and regular winter
visit to Great Britain and the North of Ireland. It seldom
appears much before the beginning of November, depending
on the temperature of the season, and frequently later than