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vegetable/ The entire flesh also when dressed, partook strongly of 
the flavour of the turnip. 
As a difference of opinion exists among authors on the subject 
of the fieldfare's food, I give the contents of the stomachs of seven 
other individuals examined by me, and which were killed at various 
times and places during two seasons. Of these, one contained 
two limacelliy (internal shells of naked snails belonging to the 
genus Umax , Linn.) the remains of coleopterous insects, and 
some vegetable matter; this last substance only appeared in 
the second; the third was filled with oats alone, though the 
weather was mild, and had been so for some time before; 
the fourth contained worms and bits of grass; these last, 
together with pieces of straw and the husks of grain, were found 
in the fifth, — the weather was severe and frosty for a week pre- 
viously ; the sixth was stored with the husks, and one grain of 
oats ; the seventh, obtained in mild weather, was filled with the 
stones of haws of the white-thorn. These birds have often been 
observed by a person of my acquaintance regaling on the haws 
or fruit of that plant, during frosty weather. 
Mr. Hewitson remarks : — “ The fieldfare is the most abun- 
dant bird in Norway, and is generally diffused over that part 
of the country which we visited, from Drontheim to the Arctic 
circle. It builds in society. Two hundred nests or upwards 
may be found within a small circuit of the forest." * Nothing is 
said of its song. The fieldfare “ only arrives in Provence when 
the cold is excessive at the beginning of winter. It stays in the 
wildest places, and departs at the approach of spring. It does 
not cross the [Mediterranean] sea." t 
THE COMMON OR SONG THRUSH. 
Turdus musicus, Linn. 
Is plentiful, and resident throughout the island. 
Although I have seen flocks of thrushes late in autumn, I am of 
* Egg’s Brit. Birds, p. 58. 
f M. Duval-Jouve in Zoologist, October, 1845, p. 1118. 
