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An observing Devonshire gentleman tells 

 me that they frequent some parts o^ Dart- 

 moor, and breed there ; but leave those 

 haunts about the end o{ September or begin- 

 ning of October, and return again about the 

 end of March. 



Another intelligent person assures me 

 that they breed in great abundance all over 

 the Peak of Derby, and are called there 

 Tor-ousels ; withdraw in October and No- 

 vember, and return in Spring. This infor- 

 mation seems to throw some light on my 

 new migration. 



Scopolis* new work (which I have just 

 procured) has its merits in ascertaining 

 many of the birds of the T/ro/ and Carniola. 

 Monographers, come from whence they 

 may, have, I think, fair pretence to chal- 

 lenge some regard and approbation from 

 the lovers of natural history ; for, as no 

 man can alone investigate all the works of 

 nature, these partial writers may, each in 

 their department, be more accurate in their 

 discoveries, and freer from errors, than 



* Annuf! Primus Hixforico-Ncituralis. 

 VOL. I. L 



