Rkdwino. INSESSORES. MERULA. 165 



REDWING. 



Merula Iliaca. 

 PLATE XLV. Fig. 3. 



Turdus Iliacus, Linn. Syst. 1. 292. 3 Gmel. Syst. 1. p, 808. sp. 3 Lath. 



Ind. Omith, v. 1. p. 329. 7 — Rail Syn. p. 64. A. 4 Will. p. 139 



Briss. 2. p. 208. 3. t. 20. f. 1. 



Le Mauvis, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 309 Id. PI. Enl. 51. 



Merle Mauvis, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 165. 



Roth-Drossel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 360. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. p. 196 Frisch. t. 28. f. 1. and 2. 



Redwing, Swinepipe, or Wind-Thrush, Br. Zoo\. No. 108. — Arct. Zool. 2. 



342. D Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 59 Lath. Syn. 3. p. 22. 7 P^llt. Cat. 



Dorset, p. 10 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 199 Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewick's Br. 



Birds, 1. p. 102 Low's Fau. Oread, p. 57- 



Redwing Thrush, Shaw's Zool. v. 10. p. 183. 



This species, like the Fieldfare, is a periodical visitant, periodical 

 and generally makes its appearance a few weeks prior to that visitant. 

 bird, arriving upon our north-eastern coasts about the mid- 

 dle or latter part of October. During its residence here, it 

 remains gregarious, and haunts the meadows and pastures as 

 long as open weather continues ; on the approach of frost, 

 repairing to woods and hedges, where the hawthorn, holly, 

 and some other trees, afford, by their berries, the necessary 

 means of subsistence. Should the weather prove very severe, 

 or a failure of food occur, they continue their migration 

 southward, an instance of which happened in the winter of 

 1822. In the first storm of snow, which lasted for nearly 

 three weeks, large flocks of Fieldfares and Redwings were 

 collected about the hedges, and on the outskirts of woods, 

 where they lived upon the berries of the hawthorn, and which, 

 fortunately for them, were in great abundance. This sup- 

 ply, however, rapidly decreased ; but before its total failure, 

 a few days of thaw intervened previous to the commence- 

 ment of the second severe storm. Taking advantage of this 

 change of weather, they were enabled to pursue a more ex- 



