126 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



The food is very much the same as that of the 

 Thrush, but in the summer time, as a rascally thief in 

 a fruit garden, the Blackbird would take a lot of 

 beating. This bird has the habit of jerking- up its 

 tail immediately after perching on a set of palings 

 or branch of a tree. 



The specimens in the case were obtained at Glen- 

 beigh, CO. Kerry, during the winter of 1893, and 

 the pied specimen on the bogs near Waterville, co. 

 Kerry, when out Snipe shooting some years later. 



The Fieldfare. 



This winter visitor comes over to our islands 

 usually about the end of October, " the date of its 

 arrival, however, depending a good deal upon the 

 autumnal temperature in those northern regions of 

 Europe which form its principal breeding-ground. 

 It breeds abundantly in Scandinavia, Finland, Nor- 

 thern Russia, Siberia, Central Russia, Baltic Pro- 

 vinces, and Poland, and, of late, in Moravia, Bohemia, 

 and Bavaria. Its migrations extend to the African 

 side of the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Palestine, 

 Persia" (H.S.). 



This bird, familiar as it must be to us during frosts in 

 winter months, goes northward in the spring to breed. 



The specimens in the case were shot at Glenbeigh, 

 CO. Kerry, during the winter of 1893. 



The Redwing. 

 This, the smallest and most delicate of the British 

 Thrushes, may easily be recognised by a broad white 



