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end of August, and sometimes as late as the end of Sep- 

 tember, particularly in those seasons when our harvest is 

 backward. I have several times killed both adult birds 

 and the young of the year when out 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 

 Dorsetshire, 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 Jar dine sends me word that he once shot this bird 

 in the garden 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 1834, 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 Lub- 

 bock, 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 men- 

 tions that a young bird was shot out of a flock at Prest- 

 wick Car, in Northumberland, in the month of September, 

 1794. I do not find any notice of the Turtle Dove visit- 

 ing any part of Scandinavia or Russia. It is common in 

 Germany in summer, and from thence southward to the 



