. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . end Morton says of the Field-fare :— According to Mr. Willughby, they all flyout of the country in the spring, not so much asone of them remaining, which perhaps may be trueas to most other parts of England ; but yet in thiscounty I have seen here and there one in all thesummer months. The true summer-home of theFieldfare is the north of Europe, where it seems thatthese birds breed in society. For a description of thenest and eggs I refer my readers to the many Englishwriters who have seen and handled them in situ,especially Mr. Hewi
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . end Morton says of the Field-fare :— According to Mr. Willughby, they all flyout of the country in the spring, not so much asone of them remaining, which perhaps may be trueas to most other parts of England ; but yet in thiscounty I have seen here and there one in all thesummer months. The true summer-home of theFieldfare is the north of Europe, where it seems thatthese birds breed in society. For a description of thenest and eggs I refer my readers to the many Englishwriters who have seen and handled them in situ,especially Mr. Hewitson, as quoted in Yarrells BritishBirds, loc. sujJico cit. This species is a winter visitor AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 97 to most parts of Europe, but decidedly uncommon inSpain, and amidst many thousands of Song-Thrushes,Blackbirds, Redwings, and a few Ring-Ouzels, inthe market of Marseilles in November 1874, I onlynoticed one Fieldfare : I only once saw it in EuropeanTurkey, but have a specimen from Cyprus. One ofthese birds which I kept caged for some months. Fieldfares. became tame, and appeared to me to attempt animitation of the song of his cousin and neighbour incaptivity, a Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrigu-laris). The earliest record of first appearance of theFieldfare at Lilford that I can find in my note-bookssince 1861, upon which I can positively depend, wason October 9, 1885, but several rumours of Sep-tember appearances have come to my ears. H 98 THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 33. BLACKBIRD. Turdus merula. The Blackbird is so well known throughout Eng-land, and its habits so easy to observe, that anydetailed notes thereon would be superfluous. I willtherefore content myself with saying that with us itis especially abundant, that its numbers are increasedevery autumn by an immigration, and that more ofthese birds remain through the winter in our districtthan of any other species of the genus. I have notobserved in the Blackbird the habit so well known inthe case of t
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