REDWING. PASSERES. TURDUS. 157 
Le Mauvis, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 309.—Id. Pl. Enl. 51. 
Merle Mauvis, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 165. 
Roth-Drossel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 360.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 1. p. 196.—Frisch. t. 28. f. 1. and 2. 
Redwing, Swinepipe, or Wind-Thrush, Br. Zool. No. 108.—Arct. Zool. 2. 
342. D.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 59.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 22. 7.—Pult. Cat. 
Dorset. p. 10.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 199.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, 1. p. 102.—Low’s Fau. Orcad. p. 57. 
Redwing Thrush, Shaw’s Zool. v. 10. p. 183. 
This species, like the fieldfare, is a periodical visitant, and Periodical 
generally makes its appearance a few weeks prior to that bird, meen 
arriving upon our north-eastern coasts about the middle or 
latter part of October. During its residence here, it remains 
gregarious, and haunts the meadows and pastures, as long 
as open weather continues ; on the approach of frost, repairing 
to woods and hedges, where the hawthorn, holly, and some 
other trees afford, by their berries, the necessary means of 
subsistence. Should the weather prove very severe, or a failure 
of food occur, they continue their migration southward, an 
instance of which happened in the winter of 1822. In the 
first storm of snow, which lasted for nearly three weeks, large 
flocks of fieldfares and redwings were collected about the 
hedges, and on the outskirts of woods, where they lived upon 
the berries of the hawthorn, and which, fortunately for them, 
were in great abundance. This supply, however, rapidly de- 
creased ; but before its total failure, a few days of thaw in- 
' tervened previous to the commencement of the second severe 
storm. ‘Taking advantage of this change of weather, they 
were enabled to pursue a more extended southern migration, 
and scarcely an individual was afterwards seen in Northum- 
berland. Montracu mentions, that, in the hard winter of 
1799, vast numbers of these birds reserted to the west of 
England, where a sudden fall of snow deprived them of all 
food, and being previously too much reduced for farther tra- 
vel to a warmer climate, thousands of them, as well as of 
fieldfares, perished from starvation. The same accident oc- 
curred in the year 1814, the winter of which proved particu- 
larly fatal to the thrush tribe, to larks and other small birds, 
as was evinced in the striking diminution of their numbers 
