THE FIELDFARE 
TURDUS PILARIS 
LocaL names in surrounding counties: ‘‘ Felfer,” 
“Jack Bird” ‘‘ Pigeon-Felt ” (Essex). 
Status IN British Avirauna': A common and widely 
distributed winter visitor. 
Rap1aL DisTrRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paut’s: ‘The Fieldfare is by no means an uncommon 
winter migrant to the Metropolitan area, although, like 
everywhere else, its numbers vary a good deal almost 
every season in succession. ‘This may not be altogether 
due to the local weather conditions in the British Islands, 
but to the fact of a successful breeding-season in the 
northern regions or the reverse. During hard weather 
this handsome ‘Thrush may frequently be remarked in 
the parks and open spaces within a few miles of St. Paul’s, 
whilst fleeting visits are often paid to many suburban 
gardens and pleasure-grounds, a plentiful supply of 
berries often proving the chief attraction. As we get 
out more into the opening country, into the comparative 
seclusion and quiet of the remoter suburbs, the Fieldfare 
is more frequently observed. So far as my own expe- 
riences go, these remarks specially refer to the Streatham, 
Norwood, Wimbledon, Richmond, Harrow, and Barnet 
districts. ‘The bird, however, is well known in many 
others, especially in Essex, in the Epping area, and I 
have records of its abundance in some years in the Kentish 
Crays and many parts of northern Surrey. The Field- 
fare, however, 1s everywhere a somewhat capricious visitor. 
Dalike the Ring- Ouzel, the Fieldfare is a visitor to our 
shores in winter only, arriving early in November and 
leaving towards the end of March or beginning of April. 
It lives in flocks of varying size, which wander about the 
open country largely in quest of the berries upon which 
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