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when kept tame, is fond of eating honey and cara- 

 way comfits, and prognosticates a storm hy eating 

 its own dung.*' One of the most important of the 

 feather tribe which he mentions, is the Caper- 

 caillie, then found in the pine forest of Glenmori- 

 ston and Strathglass, which may be looked upon as 

 the latest indications of the remains of this splen- 

 did bird. I believe he also continues the only au- 

 thority for the introduction of the Pine Grossbeak 

 (Pyrrhula enucleator) to the ornithology of Scot- 

 land : he saw them in August flying in the forests 

 about Invercauld. 



He finished this tour by Inverary, Glasgow, and 

 Edinburgh. Taking from thence the bleak road to 

 Moffat, he visited Dr Walker, and entering Eng- 

 land again by Gretna and Carlisle, arrived at his 

 home in safety, after an absence of nearly three 

 months. 



The pleasure he enjoyed during this tour, and the 

 information he received, so necessary to the next 

 editions of his British Zoology, induced him to un- 

 dertake another, and to extend his researches farther, 

 into what he had found an interesting country, and 

 to judge of it for himself or, as he somewhere 

 quotes, 



" Yet still by Nature, not by censure try." 



Pie commenced his second journey in the summer 

 of 1772, "in order," he says " to render more com- 

 plete my preceding tour, and to allay that species of 



