don being with us, was amusing himself with a gun, 

 and found, he told us, on an old yew hedge where 



A friendly chat on Selborne street. 



there were berries, some birds like blackbirds, with 

 rings of white round their necks: a neighbouring 

 farmer also at the same time observed the same ; but, 

 as no specimens w^ere procured, little notice was 

 taken. I mentioned this circumstance to you in my 



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