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birds thus lost is much larger than is generally 

 suspected, and only in very exceptional cases is 

 the compulsory sojourn in our country during 

 winter attended with success. 



We may also mention that the ornithological 

 attraction of the orchard or garden is by no 

 means confined to the spring and summer months. 

 In autumn and winter they are casually visited by 

 large numbers of birds, many of them seen in our 

 islands only during that season, as, for instance, 

 Redwings and Fieldfares, Bramblings, Crossbills, 

 and even Black Redstarts. Many times has a 

 plump Woodcock or Snipe been flushed from the 

 swampy corner of the orchard ; whilst in severe 

 weather Pheasants and Partridges, Moorhens, and 

 even such unlikely birds as Herons, not only visit 

 such places, but even seek a sanctuary in the 

 garden. 



It is interesting to remark that as the present 

 volume was going through the press, Mr. F. B. 

 Doveton, of Torquay, obligingly wrote to us, saying 

 that he observed what he firmly believed to be a 

 pair of Pine Grosbeaks at work on the cones of a 

 Scotch fir in the Middle Warberry Road (in the 

 centre of that town), on the loth of January of 



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