. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ughthe boundless forest scenery of Norway, or during our visitsto some of its thousand isles, whether by night or by day,the loud, wild, and most delicious song of the Redwingseldom failed to cheer us. ^ The food of this Thrush consists chiefly of worms, snails,and insects, and it also eats berries of various kinds. Ihave seen it greedily devouring rowans when they wereripe. When disturbed from its feeding-ground, the
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ughthe boundless forest scenery of Norway, or during our visitsto some of its thousand isles, whether by night or by day,the loud, wild, and most delicious song of the Redwingseldom failed to cheer us. ^ The food of this Thrush consists chiefly of worms, snails,and insects, and it also eats berries of various kinds. Ihave seen it greedily devouring rowans when they wereripe. When disturbed from its feeding-ground, the Red-wing, like the Fieldfare and Missel Thrush, usually fliesto the topmost branches of the nearest trees, the high elmsabove the Primrose Bank being one of its favourite resortsin the neighbourhood of Paxton, during the autumn months. 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. v. pp. 232, 233. Hewitson, Ji!ggs of British Birds, vol. i. p. 87. THE REDWING. 17 The Eedwing is very like the Song Thrush in its generalappearance, but it may be easily distinguished by thereddish colour of the feathers under the wing, from whichit derives its name, as well as by the white streak overthe VOL. I. PASSERES. ( 18 ) TURDIDJE. THE FIELDFARE. FELTYFARE, FELDYPAR, FELTYFLEER, GREY THRUSH. Turdus pilaris. Where are your haunts, ye helpless birds of song,IVhett winters clojidy wing begins to shadeThe emptied fields ; when ripe?iing sloes assumeTheir deepest jet, and wild plums purple hangTempting, yet harsh till mellowed by the frost ?Ah, now ye sit crowding upon the your former homes, all desolate,A?id filled with withered leaves ; while Fieldfare flocksFrom distant lands alight, and, chirping, fiyFrotn hedge to hedge, fearful of matis approach. Grahame, Birds of Scotland. The first flocks of the Fieldfare generally arrive in the Merse about the end of October or beginning of November, and their appearance in our pasture fields is one of the many signs which we then have of the approach
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