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THE FIELD FAKE. 



reward the partners of their cares in the laborious 

 season of incubation ; building their nests in the 

 hedges or low woods, with symmetry and research. 

 These they carefully conceal by those instinctive arts 

 so common to the smaller tribes; bending twigs, 



THE FIELDFARE. 



leaves, and branches, in artful mazes, to screen them 

 from view. They lay about six bluish green eggs, 

 spotted considerably with black. 



The fieldfare is from nine to ten inches long, and 

 sixteen or seventeen broad. It weighs considerably 

 more than the redwing. Its plumage is lively, and 

 its flesh not equal to its smaller neighbour above 



