8 FIELDFARE 
perished at Langness. Some thirty years ago Mr. Graves 
remembers seeing Redwings searching for food in the 
crevices of the rocks at Ballagyr Shore, and so tame that 
one was shot with a catapult. 
The Redwing is generally abundant in its season in all 
the surrounding districts, as in most parts of Britain. 
TURDUS PILARIS, Linn. FIELDFARE. 
Win (i.e. WinD) THRUSH (because it appears in stormy weather), 
Snowprrp. Manx, Ushag ny traghtee or sniaghtee 
(M.S. D.). Ushag-sniaghtey =Snowbird. 
A fairly plentiful species with us in winter, the Field- 
fare readily attracts attention by its gregarious habits and 
harsh chattering cry. It loves the uplands, the flocks fly- 
ing from one clump of ‘ Keirn’* or ash-trees to another 
along the borders of the glens, scattering in search of food 
over the pastures which border the waste, and settling 
down for the night’s rest amid the low furze and heath of 
the commons. But a spell of frosty weather, rare in Man, 
sends them to the lowlands and the coast, when they lose 
much of their natural shyness and gather eagerly about 
unfrozen ground, and the Manx name indicates the bird’s 
connection in the popular mind with the hard weather 
which renders it so much more conspicuous. 
As might be expected the Fieldfare often figures in the 
returns from the Manx light stations, especially in November, 
but the compilers of the section for West England and the 
Isle of Man in the 1885 volume remark, ‘ Very few Field- 
fares appear to perish at the lanterns.’ The 1902 report 
states that the spring movements of departure on the west 
coast, ‘observed somewhat feebly at the English, Weish, 
1 7,e. Mountain-ash, 
