56 NATURAL HISTORY [Birds. 



Tliis bird is well known, and as well described in Mr Pen- 

 nant's British Zoology, a book in so many hands, as to ren- 

 der a particular description here unnecessary, only I shall ob- 

 serve, that the young birds do not acquire their perfect colours 

 for the first year, but are of an uniform dusky brown, with a 

 yellowish stripe running from the lower jaw down to the 

 breast ; and, besides, may be known by their particular note. 

 I have heard of one example of a stare, in the nest of which 

 there was four young, two of Avhich were black, the others 

 gray, and grew whiter as they grcAV older. 



I imagine stares breed twice a-year, as the first brood has 

 left the nest now in June, and I have observed them very 

 busy in repairing their nests, and rearing another in August. 



GENUS FIJI.— THE THRUSH KIND. 



Gen, C/i«r.— Bill strait, obtusely carinated at the top, bending a little at the 

 point, and slightly notched near the end of the upper mandible ; nostrils open 

 and naked.; tongue slightly jagged at the end ; toes, the middle joined to the 

 outmost as far as the first joint ; the back toe very large. 



Species 1. — The Fieldfare. 



Will. Om. 188. Raii Si/ii. Av. Qi. Turdus Pilaris, Lin. Sj/s. 291. Brit. 



Zool.225. Sib. Scot. 17. 



I'nE Fieldfare, I have been informed, makes us pretty regu- 



