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times have been found throughout England, and to 

 the attention which so remarkable a bird could 

 always command. Ramsbury in Wiltshire, I would 

 remark, one of the original seats of the Bishopric 

 Sherborne being the other which now has its 

 throne at Salisbury, is nothing else than " Ravens- 

 bury," "the town of the ravens," as is shown by 

 the fact that the Anglo-Saxons Latinised the name 

 into " Corvinum" and that the bishop used to 

 sign himself Episcopus Corvinensis, or " Bishop of 

 Ravens." The Bishop of Salisbury, therefore, 

 looking to the origin of his see, as well as to the 

 number of ravens which are still happily to be 

 found on the coast, in the Dorsetshire part of his 

 diocese, especially round Lulworth, has, I imagine, 

 almost as good a right to be called the " Bishop 

 of Ravens," as the bishop of the quail-haunted Isle 

 of Capri, who once derived a considerable revenue 

 from them, had to be called the " Bishop of Quails." 

 " The raven," says the author of Birds of 

 Wiltshire,* "is no mean ornament of a park, and 

 speaks of a wide domain, and large timber, and 

 an ancient family ; for it is an aristocratic bird 

 and cannot brook a confined property and trees of 

 young growth. Would that its predilection were 

 * Quoted by Mr Hudson in his Birds and Man, p. 119. 



