REDWING. 
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WCESSORES. 
DEN TIR OS TRESj 
MERUL1D/E. 
REDWING. 
Turdus iliacus. 
PLATE XXIV. FIGS. I. AND II. 
In our long rambles through the boundless forest 
scenery of Norway, or during our visits to some of its 
thousand isles, whether by night or by day, the loud, 
wild, and most delicious song of the Redwing seldom 
failed to cheer us. 
Unlike its neighbour the fieldfare, it was solitary and 
shy, and on our approach to the tree on the top of which 
it was perched, would drop down and hide itself in the 
thick of the brushwood. 
Throughout that part of the country which we visited it 
is known by the name of nightingale, and well it deserves 
to be so; to a sweeter songster I have never listened. 
Like the nightingale of more southern skies, its clear 
sweet song would occasionally delight us during the 
hours of night, if the two or three delightful hours of 
twilight which succeed the long day of a Norwegian 
summer can be called night. The birds, like the other 
inhabitants of the country, seem loth to lose in sleep a 
portion of this delicious short-lived season. 
Anxious to extend our researches onwards, in the hope 
that as we proceeded north we should prove more suc¬ 
cessful, we had lingered but little to search for the nest 
and eggs of the Redwing, and our inquiries with regard 
to them had been unavailing. One afternoon, as we 
