232 NATURAL HISTORY 



well remember, after that dreadful Winter 

 1739-40, that cold north-east winds con- 

 tinued to blow on through April and May, 

 and that these kinds of birds (what few 

 remained of them) did not depart as usual, 

 but were seen lingering about till the be- 

 ginning of June, 



The best authority that we can have for 

 the nidification of the birds above-men- 

 tioned in any district, is the testimony of 

 faunists that have written professedly the 

 natural history of particular countries. 

 Now, as to the fieldfare, Linnceus, in his 

 Fauna Suecica, says of it, that maximis 

 in arboribus nidijicai:'' and of the redwing 

 he says, in the same place, that nidijicat 

 in mediis arbusculis, sive sepibus : ova sex 

 ccBruleo-iiridia mascuUs nigris variis*' 

 Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and 

 redwings breed in Sweden. Scopoli says, in 

 his Annus Primus, of the woodcock, that 

 nupta ad nos venit circa cequinoctium ver- 

 nale:' meaning inTirol, of which he is a na- 

 tive. And afterwards he adds, nidijicat in 



