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♦ -FIELDFARE.
Turdus pilaris, tin. Syjl. i, p. 2 9 1 . N ° 2. •— Faun. Suec. 21 5 . — Scop. an. i*
p. 1 3 3 . N ° 1 9 4 .«— Brun. 6 5 , 2 3 2 * — Muller, p. 2 9 . N ° 2 3 8 . — Georgi
B.eifc> p. 1 7 3 .— Frifch. £. 2 6 .— Kram.el. p. 3 6 1 . N ° 7 .
La Litorne, ou Tourdelle, BriJ\ orn. ii. p. 2 1 4 . N u 5 .— Buf. oif. iii. p, 3 0 1 .
pi. 1 9 . f. 2 .— Pl.tn. 4 9 0 * .
Fieldfare, or Feldefare, Rati Syn. p. 6 4 . A. 3 .— Will, orn. p. 1 8 8 . pi. 37*“““
Br. Zoot. N ° 1 0 6 .— Albin. i. pi. 3 6 .— Artt. Zool.
Lev. Mu/.
D i s r u p t i o n . J ^ E N G T H ten inches: breadth feventeen : weight four
ounces. The bill is yellowilh, with a black tip ; at the
gape of the mouth a few black briftles: the crown of the head,
and hind part of the neck, are cinereous olive ■, the firft fpotted
with black: the upper furface of the body, and wings, chefnut
brown : rump alh-colour: quills cinereous, with pale edges: the
fore part of the neck and breaft yellowilh, inclined to rufous, each
feather being more or lefs brown in the middle: the belly,
thighs, and vent, dulky white : tail black-brown : legs blackilh.
The male and female much alike.
P l iA C l AN D
Manners.
This bird is migratory, palling the winter in England, to
which it comes at the beginning of October; fooner or later, according
to the approaching rigour of the feafon in the place of
its fummer retreat, which is the more northern parts, viz. Rujfia,
Sibiria, Kamtfchatka, Sweden, and Norway : fometimes come into
England in prodigious flocks, but in mild winters few or none are
feen. They migrate into France and Italy likewife, but do not
arrive at the firft till the beginning of December "f. This and
9 This is named Galandrottt, by miHake. t HJl. des oif.
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T H R U S H .
the Redwing fuppofed to be the Turdi * of the Roman hiftorians,
which are faid to have been kept, in fattening aviaries by thou-
fands together, and efteemed a dainty.
Linnaus tells us, that it builds in high trees in Sweden -f, and
frequents the places where junipers grow. During its ftay with us,
it eats hawthorn, holly, and other berries. The flelh is tolerably
good, though apt to be bitter. — This bird is by fome called the
Pigeon Fieldfare. I know only of three varieties.
LaLitorne tachetée. Brij', orn. ü. p. zi8. E.
Pied Fieldfare, Albin, ii. pi. 36.
1 1 ' H I S has a white head and neck ; the firft fpotted with
black, the laft with lead-colour. Throat and breaft rufous,
fpotted with black : back brown : rump cinereous: the under
parts white, Ipotted with black.
La Litorne à tète blanche, Erif. orn. ii. p. 217. A.
^ J 'H IS has the head and upper part of the neck white : the reft
as in common.
* Br. Zool.—The poets mention them in many places, viz. I lor. Ep. xv. 1. 41.
—Per/. Sat. vi. 1. 24.—Mart. Ep. 1. xiii. ep. 92.
+ Faun. Suec. — A hell has been found at Paddington, near London. — See
Marl. Mi/cel. ii. 561,— Barring. Mifc. p, 221,
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