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Scotland are on record, but are not free from doubt; 

 for example, in Selkirkshire (Fairholme, Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, 1837, p. 339; Blyth, op. cit., p. 43.9); at 

 Merton, Surrey (Blyth, Field, June 17, 1871). See 

 also A. G. More, Ihis, 1865, p. 19 ; and Bree, Field, 

 June 12 and 19, 1869. 



REDWING. Turdus iliacus, Linna3us. PI. 6, fig. 7. 

 Length, 8-75 in. ; wing, 4-5 in. ; tarsus, 1*1 in. 



A winter visitant, arriving with Fieldfares in 

 October and leaving in April. Reported to have 

 nested in Surrey, Middlesex, Leicestershire, Shrop- 

 shire, North Wales, Orkney, and the Outer Hebrides 

 (see A. G. More, Ibis, 1865, p. 19); in Yorkshire, 

 at Kildale (Zool., 1845, p. 1056), at Glaisdale (Zool., 

 1873, p. 3411), and near York (Zool, 1879, p. 460). 

 Blyth reported [Mag. Nat. Hist., 1834, p. 242) that 

 "both the Redwing and the Fieldfare have been 

 repeatedly seen throughout the summer in a wood 

 called the Wood of Logic, upon the estate of Sir 

 John Forbes, at Fintry, in Aberdeenshire." A hybrid 

 Redwing and Fieldfare is described and figured in 

 the Ibis, 1898, p. 317. 



BLACKBIRD. Turdus merida, Linnaeus. PI. 6, figs. 1, 2. 

 Length, 10 in. ; wing, 5 in. ; tarsus, 1'3 in. 



Resident ; migrating eastward and southward in 

 autumn, at which season sportsmen when partridge 

 shooting find numbers in the turnip fields. 



Pied Blackbirds are not unfrequently met with, 

 and more rarely specimens entirely white, but with 



