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FIELDFARE. 



FELDFABE. FELT. FELTFAEE. BLUE-BACK. 

 BLUE-TAIL. BLUE-FELT. 



Turdus pilaris, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 

 TurdusA. Thrush. Pilaris ? 



THE Fieldfare, though of unpretending colours, is an 

 attractive bird in the eye of the ornithologist; it is indigenous- 

 in Europe, in Prussia, Poland, and Austria, where it remains 

 throughout the year: in Russia, Sweden and Norway, Siberia, 

 arid Kamtschatka it is only found in summer, and in France, 

 Switzerland, and the other more southerly parts of the continent, 

 it is, as with us, only a winter visitor; and as such extends 

 its flight to Majorca and Minorca, and in Asia to different 

 parts of Asia Minor. 



It is found in all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and 

 Wales. 



In Orkney also it is a regular winter visitant. 



Fieldfares have been seen by W. F. W. Bird, Esq., in one 

 of the London Parks. 



This species is the latest in its arrival of any of our winter 

 birds. Their usual time of arrival is towards the end of 

 October and the middle or latter part of November, and some 

 are said to have been observed on the 9th. and llth., and 

 other days, of September; but they may have been mistaken, 

 I think, at least in many cases, for the Misseltoe Thrush: 

 Mr. Edward Lambert states in the 'Linnsean Transactions,' 

 volume iii, page 12, that he saw one on the 29th. of that 

 month. They seem to wait for a fair wind before leaving 

 their own shores, arriving here always with the wind from 

 the east or the north-east. Having however found their way 



