FreLpDFAare. PASSERES. TURDUS. 153 
Wachholder-Drossel, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 145.—Id. Naturg. 
Deut. v. 3. p. 336.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 193.—Frisch, t. 26. 
Fieldfare or Feldefare, Br. Zool. 1. No. 106.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 320. A.— Will. 
(Ang.) p. 188. t. 37.—Albin. 1. t. 36.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 60.—Lath. 
Syn. 3. p. 24. 11.— Mont. Orith. Dict.—Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 31.—Puld. 
Cat. Dorset. p. 10.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 98.—Low’s Fauna 
Orcad. p. 56. 
Provincial, Felty fare, Fendyfare. 
The summer retreat, or polar migration of this bird, being Periodical 
farther towards the north than the utmost latitude of our Y!@" 
island, it becomes a periodical visitant with us, as a return to 
warmer latitudes on the approach of autumn, or after it has 
performed the duties attendant on the propagation of its spe- 
cles. 
Of all our winter visitants, it is the latest in its arrival, sel- 
dom reaching these shores before the latter part of November, 
as I have ascertained by a registry of its first appearance for 
some years past, although by many ornithologists it has been 
said to appear with or before the redwing ; but I have inva- 
riably found the latter preceding the arrival of the fieldfare 
-by some weeks. On the Northumbrian coast, it always ar- 
tives with the wind at north-east or east. As its first appear- 
ance is so much later than that of its fellows in migration, so 
also is its departure in the spring ; and I have for many years 
noticed flocks of these birds remaining on our coasts as late as 
the latter part of May, or the first week of June. During its 
abode with us, it continues in large flocks, and, as long as the 
weather remains mild, frequents the meadow and pasture 
grounds, feeding upon slugs, worms, and the larvee of insects. Food. 
In severe frosts, and when the ground is covered with snow, 
it resorts to the hedges, and to small plantations, where it 
subsists upon the berries of the hawthorn, holly, mountain- 
ash, and some others. [It isa bird of shy disposition, and, un- 
less pressed by hunger,'and reduced by want, will not allow of 
any near approach to it. Highly as the flesh of the Fieldfare 
was prized by the Romans, I have not found it to exceed in 
flavour that of the misseltoe thrush, and the others of its 
tribe, possessing also a bitterness from which some of them 
