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REDWING. 



SWIKEPIPE. WIND THKTJSH. 



Turdus Ifiacus, 



Merula lliaca, JARDINE. SELBT. 



Turdus A Thrush. lliacus. ? 



A NATIYE of the far distant regions of the north, and for 

 successive ages unmolested and even unseen by man, the 

 Redwing, till now, has there securely reared her young. The 

 solitude of the lonely forest is however no longer unbroken, 

 and modern travellers pry into the gloomiest depths of the 

 untrodden wilderness, in search, among the various motives 

 which actuate them in their wanderings, of a more accurate 

 knowledge of the habits of the birds that have heretofore 

 passed their summers in the trackless woods. To Mr. Hewitson, 

 the eminent Oologist, for one, the praise of this scientific 

 enterprise is due. 



In Europe this pleasing bird is found in Russia, Siberia, 

 Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and the Eeroe Islands, 

 and it travels, as winter approaches, into Poland, France, 

 Spain, and Italy. In Asia Minor it has also been seen by 

 Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland. 



It is plentiful in England, Ireland, and Scotland, as also 

 in the Orkney Islands, where it is, as with us, an annual 

 visitor, arriving in October. Like the Fieldfare, a few may 

 be occasionally seen at all seasons. The Rev. Mr. Low was 

 induced to believe that a pair built in Hoy, but he was unable 

 to detect their nest. 



The Redwing is a migratory bird, leaving here at the end 

 of April or beginning of May, though sometimes remaining 

 even till the middle of that month on the eastern side of the 



