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As they therefore build their nefts in more 
Southern parts of Europe, there is certainly no na- 
tural impoffibility of their doing fo with us, though, 
I muffc own, I never yet heard but of one inftance, 
which was a fieldfare’s neft found .near Padding- 
ton *. 
I cannot, however, but think it is only from want 
of obfervation, that more of fuch nefts have not been 
difeovered, which are only looked after by very young 
children ; and the chief objedt is the eggs, orneftlings, 
not the bird which lays them ■j-. 
The plumage therefore and flight of the fieldfare 
or redwing being neither of them very remarkable, 
it is not at all improbable they may remain in fum- 
mer, without being attended to ; and particularly the 
redwing, which fcarcely differs at all in appearance 
from other thrufhes. Thus the cough is by no means 
peculiar to Cornwall, as is commonly fuppofed, but 
is miflaken for the jackdaw, or rook. 
But it may be faid, that thefe birds fly in flocks 
during the winter, and if they remain here during 
the fummer, we fhould fee them equally congregate. 
I have not before referred to Klein, who hath written a very 
able treatife, in which he argues againft the poffibility of migra- 
tion in birds ; becaufe, though I fhould be very happy to fupport 
my poor opinion by his authority, yet I thought it right neither 
to repeat his fails, or arguments. 
* See all'o Harl. Mifc. Vol. IT. p. 561. 
f Many birds alfo build in places ot l'uch difficult accefs, that 
boys cannot climb to; birds netting is confined almoft entirely 
to hedges, and low fhrubs. 
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