98 RINGOUSELS. 



with neither in long and tedious voyages. It is 

 from this defect of food that our collections 

 (curious as they are) are defective, and we are 

 deprived of some of the most delicate and lively 

 genera. 



XXXI. 



You saw, I find, the ringousels 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 ringousels migrate 

 so regularly every September, and make their ap- 

 pearance 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 frequent 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 torousels, withdraw in 

 October and November, and return in spring. This 

 information seems to throw some light on my new 

 migration. 



Scopoli's new work 1 (which I have just pro- 

 cured) has its merits, in ascertaining many of the 

 birds of the Tyrol and Carniola. 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 



1 Annus Primus Historico-Naturalis* 



