BRITISH BIRDS. 



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much mottled and marked with dark spots, on a 

 yellowish ground. They leave England in the 

 autumn, but whither they go is not particularly 

 noticed. Buffon says they retire far north ; and 

 Pennant and Latham, that they are met with in 

 Siberia and Ivamtschatka, and are also not un- 

 common in North America. 



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