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in the habit of “ bolting ” their food, when not very large, whole. It makes 
its nest on the ground, and lays in it three or four white eggs, 
34. GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
This bird is met with in Denmark and other northern countries of Western 
Europe, and also in Russia, Germany and France, It is said to frequent 
woods and forests, and to build upon trees at some distance from the 
ground, as well as in thick bushes and hedges. The nest is made of roots, 
moss, wool and dry stalks, lined with dry grass and root-fibres. The eggs 
are four to seven in number, and though they vary a good deal in colour, 
they always illustrate the peculiar tendency of the eggs of the Shrikes to 
show a sort cf zone or girdle, due to the agglomeration of the spots about 
some part of the circumference. They are yellowish or greyish white, and 
the spots of grey and light brown. 
42, FIELDFARE. 
I have sometimes seen this favourite game-bird of the school-boy here as 
early as the latter part of September, and I have frequently noticed them 
feeding in hundreds on the holly berries which abound in more than one 
part of this district. They must breed very late in the year from the late 
period of their departure hence, and the distance of the countries to which 
many of them resort for that purpose. It breeds very abundantly in Nor- 
way, and also in Sweden, Russia and Siberia, not to mention other and more 
southerly countries in Hurope. Their nests, in Norway, are usually built 
against the trunk of the spruce-fir, and at very variable heights from the 
ground. They are said to be very like those of the Ring Ouzel, except that 
small twigs are added to the outside structure. The eggs are from three to 
five, and are very like those of the Ring Ouzel,but with somewhat more red 
about them, The Fieldfare seems to prefer breeding in numerous groups or 
colonies, two or three hundred nests vemg frequently seen within a rather 
limited space. 
42.*¥ REDWING. 
This winter visitor is known to breed occasionally, but yet only very excep- 
tionally, in this country. A nest was brcught to me two summers since, 
which, from its construction, the size and colcuring of the eggs, and espe- 
cially from the description of the bird which my informant saw leaving the 
