Class IL RING-OUZEL. 31, 



They are alfo foiirui to breed in Dartmoor^ in 

 BevonJIoire, in banks on the fides of dreams. I 

 have feen them in the fame fituation in Wales, 

 very clamorous when difturbed. 



They are obferved by the Rev. Mr. White, 

 of Selborn, near Alton, Hants, to vifit his neigh- 

 bourhood regularly twice a year, in flocks of twenty 

 or thirty, about the middle of April, and again 

 about Michaelmas, They make it only a reding 

 place in their way to fome other country ; in their 

 fpring migration they only day a week, in their 

 autumnal a fortnight. They feed there on haws,- 

 and for want of them on yew berries. On diffedli- 

 on, the females were found full of the fmall rudi- 

 ments of eggs, which prove them to be later breed- 

 ers than any others of this genus, which generally 

 have fledged young about that time. The places 

 of their retreat is not known : thofe that breed ia 

 Wales and Scotland never quitting thofe countries. 

 In the lad they breed in the hills, but defcend to 

 the lower parts to feed on the berries of the moun- 

 tain adi. 



They migrate in France at the latter feafon : and 

 appear in fmall flocks about Monthard, in Bur^ 

 gundy, in the beginning of 05loher, but feldom 

 day above two or three weeks. Notwithdandino- 

 this, they are faid, to breed in Cologne and the forcd 

 of Orleans, 



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