. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . thrown over trees andhedges, in which they are taken. The Fieldfare [Turdusjnlaris, Linn.).—This littlebird, of the sparrow kind, makes but a short stay inour countiy; is wild and tuneless, flies in flocks, andis perhaps the most wary of the smaller species. InNorway and Sweden, and the cold regions generally,the fieldfare tunes his pipe as harmoniously as many ofthe little warblers, although with us so dull and
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . thrown over trees andhedges, in which they are taken. The Fieldfare [Turdusjnlaris, Linn.).—This littlebird, of the sparrow kind, makes but a short stay inour countiy; is wild and tuneless, flies in flocks, andis perhaps the most wary of the smaller species. InNorway and Sweden, and the cold regions generally,the fieldfare tunes his pipe as harmoniously as many ofthe little warblers, although with us so dull and insipida bird. Fieldfares migrate to our coasts, temptedhither by the mildness of our winters, and the varietyof berries our trees and hedge-rows supply, whichform the staple of their food. The rigorous seasonpast, they return to their beloved forests of mapleand sycamore, where they sing the live-long day, to m2 THE FIELD FARE. reward the partners of their cares in the laboriousseason of incubation ; building their nests in thehedges or low woods, mth symmetry and they carefully conceal by those instinctive artsso common to the smaller tribes; bending twigs,. THE FIELDFARE. leaves, and branches, in artful mazes, to screen themfrom view. They lay about six bluish green considerably with black. The fieldfare is from nine to ten inches long, andsixteen or seventeen broad. It weighs considerablymore than the redwing. Its plumage is lively, andits flesh not equal to its smaller neighbour above THE FIELDFARE. 263 meutioned, altliougli a delicacy. It arrives in greatnumbers about October; and at first, in all the bustleof settling, may be shot at without much back feathers are of shades of ash colour; its headof a light ash; its bill is yellowish black; and thebird is immediately known from the length of itsmouth hairs, or whiskers. Its breast is spotted withdark colom-s on a light ground; its rump is ashcolour. Its bill is slender and sof
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