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OF SELBORNE. 



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An observing Devonshire gentleman tells me that they fre- 

 quent some parts of Dartmoor, and breed there ; but leave those 

 haunts about the end of September or beginning of October, and 

 return again about the end of March. 



Another intelligent person assures me that they breed in great 

 abundance all over the Peak of Derby, and are called there tor- 

 ousels ; withdraw in October and November, and return in 

 spring. This information seems to throw some light on my 

 new migration. 





THE KING-OUSEL. 



Scopoli's 1 new work (which I have just procured) has its 

 merit in ascertaining many of the birds of the Tyrol and Car- 

 niola. Monographers, come from whence they may, have, I 

 think, fair pretence to challenge some regard and approbation 

 from the lovers of natural history; for, as no man can alone 

 investigate all the works of nature, these partial writers may, 

 each in their department, be more accurate in their discoveries, 

 and freer from errors, than more general writers; and so by 



1 " Annus Primus Historico-Naturalis." 



