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LETTER XXXI. 



To / 



SELBORNE, Sept. itf/i, 1770. 

 EAR SIR, You saw, I find, the ring-ousels 

 again among their native crags; and are 

 farther assured that they continue resident 

 in those cold regions the whole year. From 

 whence then do our ring-ousels migrate so 

 regularly every September, and make their 

 appearance again, as if in their return, every 

 April ? They are more early this year than common, for some 

 were seen at the usual hill on the fourth of this month. 



An observing Devonshire gentleman tells me that they fre- 

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



