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a FIELDFARE. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Pack AND 
MANNERS. 
T H R U S-#H. 
Turdus pilaris, Lia. Syf. i, p. 291. No 24 — Faun. Succ, 215. — Scop. aa. ie 
p. 133. N° 194. — Brun. 65, 232. — Muller, p. 29. N° 238. — Georgi 
Reife, p.173.—Frifch. t. 26.—Kram. el. p. 361. N°7. 
ua Litorne; ou Tourdelle, Brif. ora. ii. p. 214. N* 5.—Baf. oif. ili. p. 301. 
pl. 1g. f. 2.—Pl. en. 490 *. 
Fieldfare, or Feldefare, Radi Syz. p.64. A. 3.—-Will. orn. p. 188. pl. 37.—= 
Br. Zool. N° 106.—Albin. i. pl. 26.—Are. Zool. 
Lev. Muf. 
ENGTH ten inches: breadth feventeen: weight four 
ounces. The bill is yellowifh, with a black-tip; at the 
gape of the mouth a few black briftles: the crown of the head, 
and hind part of the neck, are cinereous olive; the firit {potted 
with black: the upper furface of the body, and wings, chefnut 
brown: rump afh-colour: quills cinereous, with pale edges: the 
fore part of the neck and breaft yellowifh, inclined to rufous, each 
feather being more or lefs brown in the middle: the belly, 
thighs, and vent, dufky white: tail black-brown: legs blackifh. 
The male and female much alike. 
This bird is migratory, pafling the winter in England, to 
which it comes at the beginning of Oéfober ; fooner or later, ac= 
cording to the approaching rigour of the feafon in the place of 
its fummer retreat, which is the more northern parts, viz. Ruffia, 
Sibiria, Kamt{chatka, Sweden, and Norway: fometimes come into 
England in prodigious flocks, but in mild winters few or none are 
feen. They migrate into France and Italy likewife, but do not 
arrive at the firft till the beginning of December -. This and 
© This is named Calandrotte, by miftake. t Hit. des oif. 
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