fieldfare

[ feeld-fair ]

/ ˈfildˌfɛər /

a European thrush, Turdus pilaris, having reddish-brown plumage with an ashy head and a blackish tail.

Origin of fieldfare

before 1100; Middle English feldefare (with two f's by alliterative assimilation), Old English feldeware perhaps, field dweller

We have found many nests of the latter in the trees, and one of a fieldfare in a bank.

Three in Norway |James Arthur Lees
This species is smaller than the song thrush, and has much resemblance to the fieldfare.

The Natural History of Cage Birds |J. M. Bechstein
It simply means—'good bye, and we are well rid of you'; when the fieldfare goes, the warm weather comes.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems |Geoffrey Chaucer
Of course Mr. Fieldfare was not in the morning-room of the club as he ought to have been.

Mr. Prohack |E. Arnold Bennett

The eggs number from four to six, and are somewhat like those of the Fieldfare, only not so large.

Birds' Nests, Eggs and Egg-Collecting |Richard Kearton

fieldfare

/ (ˈfiːldˌfɛə) /

a large Old World thrush, Turdus pilaris, having a pale grey head and rump, brown wings and back, and a blackish tail

Old English feldefare; see field, fare