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have a variety in which the ground colour is most seen, 
the red brown spots being larger and much more spar¬ 
ingly sprinkled. Mr. Wolley, writing from Sweden, says, 
that this summer he has found unfinished nests and fresh- 
laid eggs of the Fieldfare near Kilix, on the 30th of May, 
that the four or five breeding-places which he found were 
amongst very young fir-trees upon the borders of the 
forest, and near cultivated land. The Fieldfare is the 
most abundant bird in Norway, and is generally diffused 
over that part of the country which we visited, from 
Drontheim to the Arctic Circle. It builds, as before 
stated, in society. Two hundred nests or upwards may 
be found within a small circuit of the forest. 
