10 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH INLAND BIRDS 
REDWING. 
(JT Urdus pilaris.) 
The Redwing is a winter visitor to this country, 
arriving about the middle of October, from which 
date until about the beginning of April it is common 
in flocks about our fields and hedgerows. Though 
much resembling a Song Thrush, it is noticeably 
smaller in size, and duller and less upstanding in 
appearance, while at close quarters a clearly defined 
yellowish stripe may be seen over the eye, as well 
as the warm reddish patch below the wing, and 
beneath it when it is opened for flight, which gives 
it its popular name. It breeds abundantly dur- 
ing the late northern summer in Sweden, North 
Russia, and the more low-lying districts of Nor- 
way, building in trees and bushes (like the Thrush 
or Blackbird) where it can find them, or on banks 
and between stones, in the fashion of the Ring 
Ouzel, on the treeless northern wastes. Its eggs 
resemble the closely-spotted variety of the Black- 
bird's. 
FIELDFARE. 
(jTurdus iliac us,) 
Felfer, Felt. — The Fieldfare is another winter 
visitor from the North, and its flocks and parties 
