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those seasons when our harvest is backward. I have several 

 times killed both adult birds and the young of the year when 

 ont Partridge shooting in Hertfordshire ; but I have observed 

 that these birds are more numerous in the thickly-wooded 

 parts of the middle of the county of Kent than elsewhere. 



In the western counties, the Turtle Dove is found in Dor- 

 setshire, Devonshire, and is not uncommon in Cornwall. 

 Mr. Eyton says it is found in Shropshire, where it is called 

 the Wrekin Dove. It is found in Lancashire ; and is men- 

 tioned as visiting Cumberland both by Mr. Heysham and 

 Mr. Sanderson. In Ireland, Mr. Templeton says this spe- 

 cies has been seen at Cranmore and at Shane's Castle. Sir 

 William Jardine sends me word that he once shot this bird in 

 the o-arden of Jardine Hall in Dumfriesshire, and in the 

 eighth volume of the Magazine of Natural History there is a 

 notice of a specimen of the Turtle Dove having been shot in 

 Perthshire in 18^4, so late in the year as the 20th of 

 October. On the eastern side of England it is common in 

 Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, 

 who has favoured me with many notes in reference to Birds 

 and Fishes, tells me that the Turtle Dove builds frequently 

 in fir plantations in various parts of Norfolk ; is content to 

 place its nest much nearer the ground, and in a much smaller 

 tree than the Ring Dove affects ; and mentions that he has 

 observed it breeding within half a mile of the city of Norwich. 

 This bird has been taken near Scarborough, and also near 

 York ; and Bewick mentions that a young bird was shot out 

 of a flock at Prestwick Car in Northumberland, in the month 

 of September 1794. I do not find any notice of the Turtle 

 Dove visiting any part of Scandinavia or Russia. It is com- 

 mon in Germany in summer, and from thence southward to 

 the shores of the Mediterranean, going still farther south 

 before the end of autumn. Mr. Fellows has included this 

 bird among those seen by him in Asia Minor in 1838; and 



