
6’ THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Tae FIELDFARE is | another Species. 7 
~The tail feathers are black, except the outer ones, whic 
are whitifh at their points on their inner margin, The head 
ee extreme. patt. ‘of the body Bicy, or duiky white. 
| iF ieldfares are . found . all the ‘year in % 
2 Jond and in Sweden, in prodigious flocks ;: in 
Engl and and France they are only birds. of | 
paflage, taking their appearance in winter, or 
the latter end of autumn, and returning in the 
fpring. They appear conftantly in the Orkney 
Tflands, at the approach of winter, in their paflage, 
Their food is berries ; in Sweden they frequent 
thofe parts, where. the juniper S10: and, there 
they build in high trees, | 
/Vheit fleth. as efleemed. The ee for 
diate birds, and. the Redwing, by thoufands in 
their) aviaries to fatten, efteeming ‘them a deli~ 
cacy. os 
“Tat REDWING, the gd Species of this Genus, : 
The wings are raft coloured beneath, its eyebrows are 
vhitith, ae | 
I vilits . Riedand with the  Fieldfare, but: swith | 
us has only a piping note. In Sweden it warbles 
melodioufly i in the fpring, perched on the top of a. 
high tree, in Maple foreits, It builds in fome — 
4 — low 


