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The Fieldfare. Turdiis Pilaris. 

 Numb, XXXVI. 



IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is ten Inches, its Breadth, 

 when the Wings are extended, fixteen Inches and three fourths, Weight four Ounces ; 

 its Bill is three fourths of an Inch, yellow, except the tip, which is black ; the Tongue 

 is rough, horny, and channel'd in the middle. The Edges of the Eye-lids are yellow, 

 which make a yellow Circle round the Eye. The Noftrils are large, as are alfo the 

 Ears ; in the lower part of the nidtating Membrane is a black Spot. The Feet and 

 Claws are black ; the outer Toe is joined to the middle -one as far as the firft Joint. 



The Head, Neck, and Rump are a{h coloured, (in fome of a deep blue;) the Crown 

 of the Head fprinkled with black Spots, (which in fome Birds are wanting j) the Back, 

 Shoulders, and covert Feathers of the Wings are of a dark Chefnut Colour, the middle 

 part of the Feathers being black : The Throat and upper part of the Breaft are yellow 

 fpotted with black, the black Spots taking up the middle part of the Feathers. The 

 Bottom of the Breaft and Belly are white ; the covert Feathers of the Sides under the 

 ends of the Wings are white; thence a red or yellow Line feparates the white from the 

 black: on each Side of the Cheek it hath a black Stroak reaching from the Bill to the 

 Eyes. It hath alfo on both fides at the bottom of the Neck, juft at the fetting on of the 

 Wings, a black Spot. The number of quill Feathers, as in the reft, are eighteen, the 

 outermoft of which are black with white Edges, the inner have fomething of red ,• the 

 covert Feathers of the infide of the Wings are white. The Tail is four Inches and a 

 half long, compofed of twelve Feathers, \i£ a dark blue ur blackifti Colour ; only the 

 tips of the outermoft Feathers are white, and the edges of the middlemoft afh coloured. 



The Liver is divided into two Lobes, and furniftied with its Gall-Bladder 3 the 

 Mufcles of the Gizzard are not very thick j there was no Paflage found to convey the 

 Gall into the Guts. 



Thefe are a Bird of Paflage, and fly in Flocks, coming into 'England about the be- 

 ginning of Autumn, and ftay all the Winter, and go away in the Spring, not one Bird 

 remaining behind, nor any young Bird or Neft ever to be found in England. Where 

 they go or breed is not yet known ; fome fay they breed in Bohemia., others in Swedeni 

 but there is no certainty for either of thefe Reports. Their Food is Juniper, Holly, 

 and the Berries of the White-Thorn, and in open Weather on Worms and other Infe<fts, 

 lying much upon Meadows and Pafture Ground. They are accounted good Meat, and 

 preferable to any other of the Thruih Kind. 



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