NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description Visits dirtVrent places. 



wards and downwards. It makes its nest in trees, 

 and not in buildings, like the common sparrow. 



THE FIELDFARE. 



THIS bird is somewhat less than the missel 

 thrush; its length being ten inches. The bill is 

 yellow; each corner of the mouth is furnished 

 with a few black bristly hairs ; the eye is light 

 brown; the top of the head, and back part of 

 the neck are of a light ash-colour, the former 

 spotted with black ; the back and coverts of the 

 wings are of a deep houry brown; the rump ash- 

 coloured ; the throat and breast are yellow, regu- 

 larly spotted with black; the belly and thighs of 

 a yellowish white; the tail brown, inclining to 

 black ; the legs dusky yellowish brown ; in young 

 birds yellow. 



The fieldfare is only a visitant in this island, 

 making its appearance about the beginning of 

 October, in order to avoid the rigorous winters 

 of the north, from whence it sometimes comes in 

 great flocks, according to the severity of the sea- 

 son, and leaves us about the latter end of Febru- 

 ary or the beginning of March, and retires to 

 Russia, Sweden, Norway, and as far as Siberia 

 and Kamtschatka. 



BufTon observes, that they do not arrive ia 

 France till the beginning of December; that 



