THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The FIELDFARE is another Species. 
The tail feathers are black, except the outer ones, which 
are wliitffli at their points on their inner matgin. I he head 
and extreme part of the body grey, or a dulky white. 
Fieldfares are found all the year in Po¬ 
land and in Sweden, in prodigious flocks ; in 
England and France they are only birds of 
paflage, making their appearance in winter, or 
the latter end of autumn, and returning in the 
fpring. They appear conftantly in the Orkney 
Iflands, at the approach of winter, in their paflage. 
Their food is berries; in Sweden they frequent 
thofe parts where the juniper grows, and there 
they build in high freer. 
Their flelh is efteemed. The Romans kept 
thefe birds, and the Redwing, by thoufands in 
their aviaries to fatten, eftceming them a .deli¬ 
cacy. 
The REDWING, the 3d Species of this Genus. 
The wings are ruft coloured beneath, its eyebrows arc 
v.'hitilh. 
It vifits England with the Fieldfare, but with 
us has only a piping note. In Sweden it warbles 
melodioufly in the fpring, perched on the top of a 
high tree, in Maple forefts. It builds in fomc 
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