232 NATURAL HISTORY 



well remember, after that dreadful Winter 

 1739-40, that cold north-east winds con- 

 tinued to blow on through April and May, 

 and that these kinds of birds (what few 

 remained of them) djd not depart as usual, 

 but were seen lingering about till the be- 

 ginnhig o^ June. 



The best authority that we can have for 

 the nidification of the birds above-men- 

 tioned in any district, is the testimony of 

 faunists that have written professedly the 

 natural history of particular countries. 

 Now, as to the fieldfare, Limiaus, in his 

 Fauna Snecica, says of it, that " viaximis 

 ill (irhoribus nidijicatr and of the redwing 

 he says, in the same place, that *' nidijicat 

 171 iticcliis arbusculis, sive sejnbus : ova sex 

 ccBruleo-viridia inasculis nigris variis.*' 

 Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and 

 redwings breed in Swede?!. Scopoli says, in 

 his Annus Primus, of the woodcock, that 

 " 7iiij)ta ad nas venit circa (cquinoctium ver- 

 naUr meaning mTirol, of whichheis a na- 

 tive. And afterwards he adds, " nidijicat in 



