FIELDFARE. 45 



FIELDFARE. 



FELDFARE. FELT. FELTFARE. BLUE-BACK. 

 BLUE-TAIL. BLUE-FELT. 



PLATE XCIX. 

 Turdus pitaris, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



IELD FARES build in societies, as many as two 



hundred nests and upwards having been found 

 within a small circuit of the forest. The same situations 

 appear to be resorted to from year to year from some 

 cause of predilection or other, as with the Rooks. 



The nest, which is placed in pine or fir trees, at 

 a height of from four to forty feet from the ground, 

 is made of small sticks, grass, and weeds, cemented 

 together with a small quantity of clay, and lined with 

 fine grass. It is for the most part placed against the 

 trunk of the tree, but sometimes at a considerable 

 distance from it, towards the smaller end of the thicker 

 branches. Single nests however sometimes occur. 



The hurried flight and loud harsh cries of the 

 owners, if alarmed, readily lead to their discovery. 



The eggs are from three to four, five, or six in 

 number, of a pale bluish green, of different shades, 

 spotted, mottled, and streaked with darker or lighter 

 reddish brown. 'They are all sometimes so closely 



