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perienced egg-collector. The fact that the Redwing does 

 occasionally breed in North Yorkshire, and I think not so 

 very unfrequently, is an interesting one, and therefore not 

 unworthy of record here.' " 



A buff variety, with light grey markings, and the red 

 patch of a paler shade, was procured by Mr. Alwin S. Bell, 

 near Scarborough, about 1855 {Zool. 1870, p. 2343), a white 

 one, with red flanks and axillaries, about 1891-^2, is recorded 

 at Ackworth ; a pied specimen at Monckton (Xidd.), and a 

 white one in the Beverley district in October 1903. 



In Cleveland it is locally known as Swinepipe, from its 

 note. Wind Thrush is a Yorkshire name given by Allan in 

 1791 (Fox's " Synopsis," p. 63) ; in the Western Ainsty 

 Redwing Felfer is in use ; and Felfer at Ackworth and Scar- 

 borough, being, doubtless, confused with the Fieldfare. In 

 Staithes and Loftus district it is called Redwing Throlly. 



FIELDFARE. 

 Turdus pilaris (Z.). 



Winter visitant, common ; generally arrives in October and Novem- 

 ber, and remains in spring until April, or, occasionally, the middle of 

 May. Its numbers vary greatly in different seasons. 



Historically, as a Yorkshire bird, the Fieldfare claims 

 ancestry of great antiquity, for we find in the ordinances 

 as to the price of food in the city of York in the year 1393 — 

 the i6th year of the reign of King Richard the Second — that 

 the " price for twelve Fieldfares be twopence." 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Turdus pilaris. — Fieldfare — W. Eddison says : " I am well assured 

 that both this winter visitant and Iliacus very frequently stay the year 

 round in several places near Huddersfield, and that he has many times 

 seen them in the summer months ; mention is also made of its breed- 

 ing in Yorkshire by W. Yarrell. It bred last year at Lepton, near 

 Huddersfield." 



