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crested wrens, pelican, crossbill, fieldfare, missel- 

 thrush, rook, etc; but many of the early winter 

 birds push southward by the middle of Jannuary, 

 as soon as the fields have been ploughed, and the 

 crops are getting up. If there is one pleasant re- 

 miniscence more acceptable to my memory than ano- 

 ther, it is those happy winter days, when I used 

 to crawl along the beetling cliffs of Emtahleb and 

 its neighbourhood fossil-hunting, with the blue 

 thrush, serin finch, linnet, and spectacled warbler, 

 singing sweetly among the olive trees below me. " 



