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‘arbusculis, stve sepibus: ova sex ceruleo-viridia maculis nigris 
varits.” Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and redwings 
breed in Sweden.* Scopoli says, in his “Annus Primus,” of the 
woodcock, that “ zupta ad nos ventt circa eguinoctium vernale ,” 
meaning in Tyrol, of which he is a native. And afterwards he 
adds “ zzdificat in paludibus alpinis: ova ponit 3—5. It does 
not appear from Kramer that woodcocks breed at all in Austria ; 
but he says “Avis hec septentrionalium provinciarum estivo 
tempore incola est; ubt plerumgue nidificat. Appropinguante 
hyeme australiores provincias petit; hinc circa plenilunium mensts 
Octobris plerumgque Austriam transmigrat. Tune rurshs circa 
plentlunium potissimum mensis Martit per Austriam matrimonio 
Juncta ad septentrionales provincias redit.” For the whole passage 
(which I have abridged) see “ Elenchus,” &c. p. 351. This seems 
to be a full proof of the migration of woodcocks ; though little is 
proved concerning the place of breeding. 
P.S. There fell in the county of Rutland, in three weeks of this 
present very wet weather, seven inches and a half of rain, which 
is more than has fallen in any three weeks for these thirty years 
past in that part of the world. A mean quantity in that county for 
one year is twenty inches and a half. 
* Mr, Hewitson made an excursion to Norway, for the express purpose of procuring the 
eggs of some of our winter visitants, which were known to breed in Northern countries, 
for his b2autiful ‘‘ British Oology,’’ and thus describes the breeding place of the fieldfare. 
‘* We were soon delighted by the discovery of several of their nests, and were surprised to 
find them breeding in society. ‘Their nests were at various heights from the ground, from 
four to thirty or ¢ orty feet, or upwards, mixed with old ones of the preceding year; they 
were for the most part placed against the trunk of the spruce fir, and resembled most 
nearly those of the ring-ouzel.”* 
