26 THRUSH. 



This and the Redwing supposed to be the Turdi of the Roman 

 Historians, which are said to have been fattened in aviaries by 

 thousands together, and esteemed as dainties.* 



According to Linnaeus, it builds on high trees in Sweden,! and 

 frequents places where junipers grow ; during its stay with us, chiefly 

 feeds on hawthorn, holly, and other berries, but rarely breeds here ; 

 the circumstance, however, has happened ; for the late Mr. Lewin 

 assured me, that Feb. 12, 1792, a pair of these were observed to 

 make a nest near him in an ivy-bush, and that he had seen the 

 Fieldfare in a former year in summer time. We are also told, that 

 a nest of this bird has been found at Paddington, near London ;$ the 

 eggs as far as five or six, said to be greenish, with a few reddish 

 specks. 



A.— Turdus pilaris nsevius, Bris. ii. 218. Id. 8vo. i. 218. Klein, 67. 10. 

 Pied Fieldfare, Gen. Syn. iii. 25. A. Albin,\\. pi. 36. 



This has a white head and neck, the first spotted with black, 

 the latter with lead-colour ; throat and breast rufous, spotted with 

 black ; beneath white, spotted with black ; the rest as in the Com- 

 mon Bird. 



B. — Turdus pilaris leucocephalus, Bris. ii 217. A. Id. 8vo. i. 218. Gen. Syn. iii. 25. 

 Ray's Letters, p. 108. 



This differs only in having the head and hind part of the neck 

 white. 



C— Gen. Syn. iii. p. 26. 



This has also the head and neck white ; the rest of the body 

 white, mixed with brown in patches. 



* The Poets mention them in several places, viz. Hor. Sat. v. lib. ii. /. 10, 11, 12. Hor. 

 Ep. xv. lib. i. /. 41. Pers. Sat. vi. /. 24. Mart. Ep. I. xiii. Ep. 92. also Pliny. 

 t Faun. Suec. X Harl. Misc. ii. 561. Barrington Misc. 221. 



