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Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). — In the birch woods of the Maskejok 

 Valley we now and again saw a pair or two of these birds, but we do not 

 think we ever saw more than four nests together ; from the majority 

 of the nests the young had flown by June 25th, but we managed to get 

 a good series of eggs, though several clutches were very hard-set, and 

 two to three eggs in the clutch the rule ; so that probably those we got 



Nest of Fieldfare. 



were a second laying. It is a well-known fact that where the Fieldfares 

 breed in colonies, other birds often build in or on the outskirts of the 

 colony ; and it has been thought that advantage is taken of the Field- 

 fares' wariness, and their loud alarm-notes serve to warn the others of 

 any threatening danger. Now, although so far north as this, we never 

 found more than three to four Fieldfares' nests together, and often 



