AEA), Ue Wr SE ET 
‘This is a folitary fpecies, never uniting, with us, into flocks: 
Tike the Fieldfare and Redwing 3 yet in France is faid to be mi- 
gratory *, coming into the province of Burguedy twice in a year ; 
the firft time, when the grapes are ripe, and doing great damage 
to the vineyards*f, and difappearing with the firft frofts: they 
appear again in 4pri/, and moft of them depart in May, leaving 
a very few behind, which are obferved to breed {. In Sweden | 
only feen in fummer. 
It is met with in many parts of Rufia, efpecially where junz- 
pers grow ; moft frequent about the river Kama: but not in 
Sibirias. 
A bird of this kind is mentioned by 4/drovand**, which differed 
only in having the top of the head white; and another by 
Swenckfield ++, with a whitifh creft, and the neck encompaffed 
with a ring of the fame colour. 
Birds of this kind are fometimes feen wholly of a white, 
though for the moft part that white has more or lefs of a mix- 
ture of brown {{; which is the cafe with one now in the 
« It probably fhifts its quarters in winter, in the north of Exgland and Scotland, 
as Dr. Hey/bam of Carlifle (to whom we owe many obfervations on the birds 
which are in thofe parts) has never been able to meet with one during the win- 
ter feafon ; and feems inclined to think, that it either leaves that country in 
winter, or retires to the moft thick and folitary woods. At the latter end of Fe- 
bruary it is found there plentiful. Mr. Ekmarck obferves, that incredible 
quantities of the Song and Mifél Thrujhes, and Fieldfares, are obferved to pafs 
through Livonia, Gourland, and Pruffa, for a fortnight after Michaelmas, making 
their way as far as the 4s. Aman Acad, vol. iv. p. 578. 
+ Hence called Grive da Vigne. Hit. des oif. 
fT Itis met with at Aleppo, Rufell. 
|| Aman, Acad. ii. p. 45. § Mr. Pennant. ~ #* Av. il. p. 601. 
tt dv, Silef. p. 362. ti Aift. des vifm—See Frifch. pl. 33. 
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