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vegetable. The entire flesh also when dressed, partook strongly of 

 the flavour of the turnip. 



As a difference of opinion exists among authors on the subject 

 of the fieldfare's food, I give the contents of the stomachs of seven 

 other individuals examined by me, and which were killed at various 

 times and places during two seasons. Of these, one contained 

 two limacelli, (internal shells of naked snails belonging to the 

 genus Limax, Linn.) the remains of coleopterous insects, and 

 some vegetable matter; this last substance only appeared in 

 the second; the third was filled with oats alone, though the 

 weather was mild, and had been so for some time before; 

 the fourth contained worms and bits of grass; these last, 

 together with pieces of straw and the husks of grain, were found 

 in the fifth, — the weather was severe and frosty for a week pre- 

 viously ; the sixth was stored with the husks, and one grain of 

 oats ; the seventh, obtained in mild weather, was filled with the 

 stones of haws of the white-thorn. These birds have often been 

 observed by a person of my acquaintance regaling on the haws 

 or fruit of that plant, during frosty weather. 



Mr. Hewitson remarks : — " The fieldfare is the most abun- 

 dant bird in Norway, and is generally diffused over that part 

 of the country which we visited, from Drontheim to the Arctic 

 circle. It builds in society. Two hundred nests or upwards 

 may be found within a small circuit of the forest." * Nothing is 

 said of its song. The fieldfare " only arrives in Provence when 

 the cold is excessive at the beginning of winter. It stays in the 

 wildest places, and departs at the approach of spring. It does 

 not cross the [Mediterranean] sea." f 



THE COMMON OR SONG THRUSH. 



Turdus musicus, Linn. 



Is plentiful, and resident throughout the island. 



Although I have seen flocks of thrushes late in autumn, I am of 



* Egg's Brit. Birds, p. 58. 

 t M. Duval- Jouvc in Zoologist, October, 1845, p. 1118. 



