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gant and learned Mr. Holdsworth, p. 52. Compare 

 Virgilii ^n ii. 304. Ovid. Epist. xv. 9. Sil. Ital. vii. 365. 

 P. 46. German Boars and Sows were also turned 

 out by Charles the First in the New Forest, which bred 

 and increased. Their stock is supposed to exist now, 

 remarkable for the smallness of their hind quarters. See 

 an engraving of one in Gilpin's Forest Scenery, ii. 118. 



P. 50. The " Black-cap" which Mr. White calls a 

 delicate songster, is classed very highly by Mr. D. Bar- 

 rington, in his scale of singing birds. See also Pennant's 

 Brit. Zoology, v. i. p. 374. 



P. 54. The most curious account of the " Cross-bill" 

 (Loxia Curvirostra) was published by Dr. Townson, who 

 kept them tame. See his tracts on Natural History, 

 p. 116. 



P. 58. The ' Falco Peregrinus,' sent by Mr. White 

 to Mr. Pennant, is a rare bird. One of them was caught 

 some years ago in Norfolk, in a trap baited with a wood- 

 cock. Another was killed in January 1812 (this present 

 month) in Sussex, while fighting with a raven. This 

 falcon breeds on Glenmore, and other rocks in the 

 Highlands. See Pennant's Scotland, v. i. p. 277. 



P. 65. There certainly does exist a difficulty in con- 

 ceiving how some of the Birds of Passage, such feeble 

 and bad fliers, should be able to migrate to such a vast 

 distance ; but some of our wonder will perhaps diminish 

 when we read the account of the manner in which the 

 Quail crosses the Mediterranean, for the coast of Africa. 

 * Towards the end of September, the Quails avail them- 

 £plves of a northerly wind to take their departure from 



