PLATE XX. 
The Field Fare 
Is a bird of paflage, and accompanies the Red Wing but aflbciates with no ohter Bird, except 
the Starling which will fometimes intrude into his company. It vifits us in the winter in great 
flocks, and feeds on the produce of the hedges. It is a very loofe feathered bird, but rich in colour, 
and are very fliy and difficult to approach with a gun. The feverer the Froft is, the higher they 
are in flefh. They are good eating, but no way delicious. When they rife at the approach of a 
gun they foar fo extremely quick and high as to be foon beyond the reach of fliot. 
