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FIELDFARE. 
FELDFARE. FELT. EELTEARE. BLUE-BACK. 
• BLUE-TAIL. BLUE-FELT. 
Turdus pilaris , Linx^eus. Latham. 
Turdus —-A Thrush. Pilaris — .? 
The Fieldfare, though of unpretending colours, is an 
attractive bird in the eye of the ornithologist; it is indigenous 
in Europe, in Prussia, Poland, and Austria, where it remains 
throughout the year: in Russia, Sweden and Norway, Siberia, 
and Kamtschatka it is only found in summer, and in France, 
Switzerland, and the other more southerly parts of the continent, 
it is, as with us, only a winter visitor; and as such extends 
its flight to Majorca and Minorca, and in Asia to different 
parts of Asia Minor. 
It is found in all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and 
Wales. 
In Orkney also it is a regular winter visitant. 
Fieldfares have been seen by W. F. W. .Bird, Esq., in one 
of the London Parks. 
This species is the latest in its arrival of any of our winter 
birds. Their usual time of arrival is towards the end of 
October and the middle or latter part of November, and some 
are said to have been observed on the 9th. and 11th., and 
other days, of September; but they may have been mistaken, 
I think, at least in many cases, for the M'isseltoe Thrush: 
Mr. Edward Lambert states in the ‘Linnsean Transactions,’ 
volume iii, page 12, that he saw one on the 29th. of that 
month. They seem to wait for a fair wind before leaving 
theft.’ own shores, arriving here always with the wind from 
the east or the north-east. Having however found their way 
