Of our winter visitants that come to take the place of the summer migrants the Fieldfare is the commonest and most familiar.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
Royston, or grey crows, are winter birds that come much about the same time with the woodcock: they, like the Fieldfare and redwing, have no apparent reason for migration; for as they fare in the winter like their congeners, so might they in all appearance in the summer.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert
She neither shrieked nor fainted; but no poor January Fieldfare was ever colder, no ice-house more dank with perspiration, than she was then.
"The Hand of Ethelberta"
Thomas Hardy