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BRITISH BIRDS. 



hens, and liberated;" and that this gentleman 

 found a covey of birds in 1777, near Colchester, 

 consisting of fourteen, several of which he shot. 

 It has been represented to the author by several of 

 his friends, that these birds have become so numer- 

 ous, in some of the eastern counties of England, 

 that they have banished the native breed. 



A stuffed specimen, from Avhich the above figure 

 was taken, was lent to this work by the late Mr. 

 John Wingate, of Newcastle. 



