RING OUZEL. 219 
Tue Ring Ouzen is a summer visitor to the British 
Islands ; and although its migrations are decidedly opposite 
as to season to those of the Fieldfare and Redwing, which 
visit us in winter, all three pass the coldest weather in the 
warmer parts of Europe, and the countries a little farther 
to the south of it, and all three likewise pass the summer in 
the more central or northern parts. 
The Ring Ouzel arrives in this country from the south in 
the month of April, and appears to prefer the extreme 
western and northern portions of these islands, visiting the 
wilder rocky and mountainous districts generally. They 
breed, it is said, on Dartmoor every year; and Mr. Eyton 
has noticed that they are by no means rare birds in Wales, 
particularly on the Berwyn chain of mountains near Corwen. 
According to Mr. Thompson,” they are distributed generally 
over Ireland ; and the birds are seen every spring in Devon- 
shire and Cornwall, on their passage, probably, to these 
breeding-grounds. 
They are seen in Surrey, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Nor- 
folk, both in spring and autumn; and from the circumstance 
of a specimen having been shot early in the month of 
August 1836 near Saffron Walden, it was conjectured the 
bird had been bred in that neighbourhood. In 1804, a pair 
built in a garden at Lowestoff; but their nests are much 
more frequent in the northern counties. Mr. Allis of York 
tells me that it breeds in the higher moorlands of York- 
shire: and the eggs of this bird in my own collection were 
sent me by Mr. Leyland of Halifax. They are known to 
breed also in Derbyshire. Mr. Selby, in his Catalogue of 
Birds of the county of Northumberland, says it is common 
in summer throughout the Cheviot range, and the higher 
parts of Cumberland and Durham. At the meeting of the 
* Mag. of Zool. and Bot. vol. ii. p. 438. 
