tebe RAUL 'S ) EY 
the Redwing fuppofed to be the Turdi * of the Romaz hiftorians, 
which are faid to have been kept in fattening aviaries by thou- 
fands together, and efteemed a dainty. 
Linnazus tells us, that it builds in high trees in Sweden +, and 
frequents the places where jumipers grow. During its ftay with us, 
it eats hawthorn, holly, and other berries. The fiefh is tolerably 
good, though apt to be bitter. — This bird is by fome called the 
Pigeon Fieldfare. 1 know only of three varieties. 
La Litorne tachetée, Bri/. orn. ii. po 218. B. 
Pied Fieldfare, /din. ii. pl. 36. 
HIS has a white head and neck; the firft {potted with 
black, the laft with lead-colour. Throat and breaft rufous, 
fpotted with black: back brown: rump cinereous: the under 
parts white, fpotted with black. 
La Litorne 4 téte blanche, Brif. orn. ii. p. 217. A. 
"TP HIs has the head and upper part of the neck white: the reft 
as in commen. 
* Br. Zool.—The poets mention them in many places, viz. Hor. Ep. xv. 1. At. 
—Perf. Sat. vi. 1. 24.—Mart. Ep. \. xiii. ep. 92. 
+ Faun. Suec. — A neft has been found at Paddington, near London. — See 
Hari. Mifcel. 11. 561.—Barring. Mifc. p. 221» 
Vot. Il. E , Lev, 
Var. Ae 
Var. Bo 
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