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me. I have myself seen one or two in the parish of East 

 Garston, near Lamborne, Berkshire, one of which was shot 

 by my fellow pupil, and afterwards fellow collegian, the late 

 Rev. Henry Boys. The Rev. R. P. Alington has known but 

 two in his part of Lincolnshire, one shot by his brother, 

 and the other, a female in full plumage, by himself several 

 years ago. 



W. F. W. Bird, Esq. writes in the 'Zoologist,' page 2495, 

 'A male Ring Ouzel was killed at Kidderminster, on the 9th. 

 of May last, (1849.) Two others, supposed to be nesting, 

 were seen a short time previous, at Witley, in the same 

 county, and one of them (the male,) was shot.' In War- 

 wickshire, too, the adjoining county, Mr. A. Evans, of Coventry, 

 records in the 'Zoologist,' pages 2142-3, that the nest and 

 eggs of this bird were obtained at Pinley, close to that city, 

 on the 25th. of April, 1848, the only instance that was 

 known to have occurred there. In the neighbouring county 

 of Leicester the nests have also occurred in different years; 

 one in the Rookery at Bosworth Park, where five others were 

 obtained in 1848. In Norfolk it has been known to breed 

 in one or two instances. 



This species is generally considered to be of recluse habits, 

 but the Rev. R. W. W. Cobbold, of Thelveton Rectory, in 

 Suffolk, has written me word of a pair which built their nest 

 in a low Portugal laurel bush, only three feet from the 

 ground, and close to where people were continually passing, 

 in the grounds of the Manor House of Wortham, Suffolk. 

 John Longe, Esq., of Coddenham Vicarage, near Needham, in 

 the same county, has also informed me of one, the first he 

 ever heard of in that part, which he shot there the beginning 

 of September, 1852: it was feeding with some Blackbirds on 

 a mulberry tree. 



It breeds on the moors in the northern parts of 'Famous 

 Derbyshire,' as, for instance, in Dovedale and near Buxton, 

 the land of 'Peveril of the Peak,' and on Dartmoor, in 

 Devonshire, as also in Cumberland, Northumberland, West- 

 moreland, and Durham. In other counties it is observed in 

 spring and autumn, for eight or ten days, while on its 

 migration, in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Cornwall, and Sussex. One was caught in a trap 

 in a garden at Lambeth, in London; another was shot out 

 of a small flock on Wimbledon Common; and one near 

 Saffron Walden, in Essex, in the month of August, 1836. 



