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shine, and join all in a gentle sort of chirping, as if 
they were about to break up their winter-quarters, 
and betake themselves to their proper summer 
homes. It is well known, at least, that the swal- 
lows and the fieldfares do congregate with a gentle 
twittering before they make their respective depar- 
ture. 
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza 
miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. 
In January, 1767, I saw several dozens of them, in 
the midst of a severe frost, among the bushes on 
the Downs near Andover: in our woodland enclosed 
districts it is a rare bird. 
Wagtails, both white and yellow, are with us all 
the winter. Quails crowd to our southern coast, 
and are often killed in numbers by people that go 
on purpose. 
Mr. Stillingfleet, in his Tracts, says that, “if 
the WHeEaTEAR (@nanthe) doth not quit England, it 
certainly shifts places ; for about harvest they are 
not to be found where there was before great plen. 
