320 THE FEATJlEIUil) TIMBE.S. 



nest; but tlie birds, disturbed by Ixing too-^requoutly watched, left the wood. Listlv, 

 I may add, that Sir Robert Sibbald, in his Sivfin llltoitratii, ehiims PIciih JLir/in-s as a bird 

 of Scothiiid, inehiding it in his Jlistoriii Ariinidliini) in tScotia." 



A\'ilIougliby does not deehire that this bird is not foiuid in Eughind. lie procured his 

 specimen in the market at llatisbon, in Germany, and it was killed in the neighbourhood 

 of that city ; but touching its absence in England, he only says, " It is not found in 

 England that icc Inio/r of:' Lewin figures the species in his " Lirds of Great Bi-itain," 

 and \\rites thus : — " "We believe this to be exceedingly scarce in England ; but as we 

 luuc sufficient authority to say that it has been met with more than once in the soulliern 

 and western parts of this kingdom, it may not be amiss to figure it among the British 

 species." That the bird has occurred in this country in u natural state, even of lale 

 years, no one, we apprehend, can doubt, after the perusal of the evidence above collected • 

 and (he probability is, that this tine species was comparatively abundant in the vast 

 forests which formerly covered so great a portion of Britain, especially in tlie northern 

 parts of the country. 



