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REDWING, 
SWINEPIPE. WIND THRUSH. 
Turdus Kiacus, 
Merula lliaca, 
Linnaeus. 
Jardine. Selby. 
Turdus—A Thrush 
lliacus — 
? 
A native of the far distant regions of the north, and for 
successive ages unmolested and even unseen by man, the 
Bedwing, till now, has there securely reared her young. The 
solitude of the lonely forest is however no longer unbroken, 
and modern travellers pry into the gloomiest depths of the 
untrodden wilderness, in search, among the various motives 
which actuate them in their wanderings, of a more accurate 
knowledge of the habits of the birds that have heretofore 
passed their summers in the trackless woods. To Mr. Hewitson, 
the eminent Oologist, for one, the praise of this scientific 
enterprise is due. 
In Europe this pleasing bird is found in Russia, Siberia, 
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and the Feroe Islands, 
and it travels, as winter approaches, into Poland, France, 
Spain, and Italy. In Asia Minor it has also been seen by 
Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland. 
It is plentiful in England, Ireland, and Scotland, as also 
in the Orkney Islands, where it is, as with us, an annual 
visitor, arriving in October. Like the Fieldfare, a few may 
be occasionally seen at all seasons. The Rev. Mr. Low was 
induced to believe that a pair built in Hoy, but he was unable 
to detect their nest. 
The Redwing is a migratory bird, leaving here at the end 
of April or beginning of May, though sometimes remaining 
even till the middle of that month on the eastern side of the 
