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Boars were common in the neighborhood of London in the reign of Henry II. 
and continued in our kingdom, in a wild ftate, till 1577: they were then only to 
be found in the woods of Lord Latimer, who, we are informed by Doctor Afou- 
fits took great delight in their chace *. Let me add, from the fame authority, 
that Roebucks were found at the fame period in Wales, and among the Cheviot 
hills ; they are now confined to the Highlands of Scotland. Finally, Beavers in- 
habited Vales in 1188, when our hiftorian, Gira/dus, made his progrefs through 
the principality. Every one of thefe animals are at this time to be found in 
France, the Urus excepted. Theodebert, king of France, perifhed in the chace of 
one about the year 548 + ; but it is probable that the fpecies muft have exifted 
in that vaft kingdom long after that event, 
The Elk, N° 3; Genet, if. Quad. N° 224; Lynx, Ne 150; Fat Dormoufe, 
Hifi. Quad. N° 287; Garden Dormoufe, Hi/?. Quad, N° 288; and the Bats 
Serotine, Pipiftrelle, and Barbaftelle, Hift. Quad. N™ 408, 409, 410, either never 
~ reached our ifland, or if they did, perifhed fo early, that even their very names in 
the Briti/b tongue, have perifhed with them. The Jbex, Hi. Quad. N° 13, and 
the Chamois, Hij?. Quad. N° 17, inhabitants only of the remote Gauli/h Alps and: 
 Pyreneans, probably never reached us. France, therefore, poffefles forty-nine fpecies 
of Quadrupeds; we only thirty-nine. I exclude two fpecies of Seals { in both 
reckonings ; being animals which had at all times powers of making themfelves 
inhabitants of the coafts of each kingdom. 
Birds, which have the ready means of wafting themfelves from place to place, 
have notwithftanding, in numbers of inftances, their limits. Climate confines 
fome within certain bounds, and particular forts of food induce others to remain 
within countries not very remote from us; yet, by wonderful inftinét, birds will 
follow cultivation, and make themfelves denizens of new regions. ‘The Cross- 
BILL has followed the apple into England. Glenco, in the Highlands of Scotland, 
never knew the Partridge, till its farmers of late years introduced corn into their 
lands: nor did Sparrows ever appear in Szdiria, till after the Ruffans had made 
arable the vaft waftes of thofe parts of their dominions. Finally, the Rice Bunt- 
ings, p. 360, natives of Cuba, after the planting of rice in the Carolinas, annually 
quit the ifland in myriads, and fly over fea and land, to partake of a harveft intro- 
duced there from the diftant India. 
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* Health's Emprovement. + Ecole de la Chaffe, clxi. 
T The Common Seal, is common to the ocean and Mediterranean fea. Poflibly the Mediterranean 
Seal, Hif’. Quad. N° 376, may be fo likewife.—This work is always intended, when the name of the 
work referred to is not added to the numbers, 
FRANGE, 
Birps. 
