154 PASSERES. TURDUS. FIeLDFARE. 
are free. Montacu states that Fieldfares roost upon the 
ground : this may be the case in a mild season, but I have 
seen them at other times flock by hundreds at nightfall to fir 
Nest, &c. plantations, where they roosted upon the trees—This bird 
builds in pine or fir trees, in Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and 
other northern countries, laying from three to five eggs, of a 
pale bluish-green colour, spotted with reddish-brown. 
PuiatE 45. Fig. 1. A male bird, of the natural size. 
General Bill deep ochreous-yellow, with the tips of the mandibles 
eeorD: black. Irides dark-brown. Crown of the head, ear- 
coverts, and nape of the neck, pearl-grey; the former 
having dark spots. 
Upper part of the back, and wing-coverts, deep umber-brown, 
margin paler. Lower part of the back and rump pearl- 
grey. Quills blackish-brown, edged paler. Tail black. 
Chin, middle of the belly, and under tail-coverts, white. 
Sides of the neck, and breast, ochreous-yellow, with ob- 
long blackish-brown spots, nearly confluent, and forming 
a patch on the side of the breast. Sides and flanks with 
large triangular blackish-brown spots. Legs and claws 
blackish-brown. 
The head of the female is more clouded with brown; the 
lower part of the back yellowish-grey; and the legs paler 
than in the male bird. 
~ Song-Thrush.—Turdus musicus, Linn. 
PLATE 45. Fig. 2. 
Turdus musicus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 292. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 809.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 327.—Raii, Syn. p. 64. A. 2.—Wiill. p. 138. 37. 
Turdus minor, Briss. 2. p. 205. 2. 
La Grive, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 280.—Id. Pl. Enl. 406. 
Merle Grive, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 164. 
Sing-Drossel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 349.—Meyer, Tasschenb, Deut. 
v. 1. p. 195.—Frisch, Vog. t. 27. f. 1. 
Throstle or Song-Thrush, Br. Zool. 1. No. 107.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. $42.— 
Albin. 1. t. 34.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 58.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 18. 2.—Id. 
Sup. p. 139.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.--Wale. Syn. 2. t. 198.—Pult. Cat. 
