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MERULID^E. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MERULWJL. 



THE FIELDFARE. 



Turdus pilaris. 



Turdus pilaris, The Fieldfare, 



Merula 

 Turdus 



Merle litorne, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 404. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, British Birds, vol. i. p. 121. 

 Thrush, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 65. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 160. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 99. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 163. 



THE FIELDFARE is a well-known migratory Thrush that 

 comes to us from the North, and is one of the latest if not 

 the last species that makes its annual and regular winter 

 visit to Great Britain and the North of Ireland. It seldom 

 appears much before the beginning of November, depending 

 on the temperature of the season, and frequently later than 



