A great ash-coloured butcher-bird was shot last 

 winter in Tisted Park, and a red-backed butcher-bird 

 at Selborne : they are rarce aves in this county. 

 Crows go in pairs the whole year round. 



Cornish choughs 



abound, and breed on 

 Beachy Head and on 

 all the cliffs of the Sus- 

 sex coast. 

 The common wild 

 pigeon, or stock-dove, is 

 a bird of passage in the 

 south of England, seldom 

 appearing till towards the 

 end of November ; and is usu- 

 ally the latest winter-bird of passage. 

 Before our beechen woods were so much 

 destroyed, we had myriads of them, 

 reaching in strings for a mile together 

 as they went out in a morning to feed. They 

 leave us early in spring ; where do they breed ? 



The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the 

 missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in 

 the spring in blowing showery weather; its song 

 often commences with the year: with us it builds 

 much in orchards. 



A gentleman assures me he has taken the nests of 

 ring-ousels on Dartmoor ; they build in banks on the 



sides of streams. 



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A crow. 



