64 A CAXALOGfE OF THE BIKDS 



of May, at llotlibiuy, in 1837, wlicn an individital was sliot. 

 I took tlio eggs on the 16th of May, 1833, in jN'orway. Tlie 

 bb'cls had just commenced to lay. In that year I saw Fieldfares 

 at Eywell, twelve miles west of JS^ewcastle, a few days before 

 we started on our voyage, which we did on the 6th of May. It 

 would, therefore, seem, that as soon as they arrive at their sum- 

 mer residence they commence to breed. 



The Fieldfare breeds in society, and thus differs in habit from 

 the British species of the genus. In one locality, a little north 

 of Dronthcim, we found them breeding in great numbers asso- 

 ciated together like Hooks. The nests were on the spruce firs ; 

 and in this instance so low, for the trees were , stunted, that Ave 

 could put our hands into the nests without climbing. Here we 

 saw a great number of eggs and got a good supply of them. 

 During the time we were examining their nests the birds kept 

 flying over our heads uttering their peculiar, harsh cry. 



65. IMissEL Theush. T. viscivoeus, Liniiicus. 



Tiirdus visc/rortis, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 122- 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, I., 258. 



Not quite so plentiful as the Blackbird and Thrush. It is a 

 resident, remaining with tis the Avhole year. 



It is generally supposed that the Missel Thrush has much in- 

 creased in numbers in the northern counties since Bewick's time. 

 I can only say that I ha^'e known it nest in the district for up- 

 wards of forty years. 



66. White's Theusii. T. ArEEUs, IloUandre. 



Tmlm JFMtei, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, I., 251. 

 ,, Deghmd ct Gerbc, Om. Europ. I., 420. 



A sijecimen of this I'are casual visitant Avas shot in Castle Eden 

 Dene, Durham, by Eowland Burdon, Esq., on the 17th of Jan- 

 Mixryt 1872: it was only Avouuded, and AA'as not captured until 

 about a fortnight afterwards, and is now in the possession of 

 that gentleman. A notice of this occurrence Avas sent to " Tlie 

 Eicld" newspaper, February, 1872, from which it appears that 



