380 APPENDIX. VII. 



A lev. Mai. Berger and ]\Ir. Stillingfleet : whom 

 we should not mention a second time, * but to 

 confess the aid we here receive from their faith- 

 ful attention to the subject in question. 



We wish that any thing we could say, would 

 induce others '\ of our countrymen to follow their 

 example : they need not fear that the matter is 

 exhausted, for every county will furnish new 

 observations; each of which, when compared, 

 will serve to strengthen and confirm the other. 

 Such an amusement is worthy of every one, be- 

 neath none; but would become no order of men 

 better than our clergy, as they are (or ought to 

 be) the best qualified, and the most stationary 

 part of the community; and, as this is a mixed 



,.:- ...i species of study (when considered as physico- 

 theology) it is therefore particularly pertinent to 

 ' ^ their profession. A most ingenious friend, whom 

 modesty prevents from putting his name to a 

 work that renders observations of this kind of 

 the utmost facility, has pointed out the way, and 



. - .. methodized every remark that can occur; the 

 farmer, the sportsman, and the philosopher, will 



* Vide Preface. 



t In Mr. Montagus Ornithological Dictionary are many 

 excellent observations on the migration of birds. "Mr. Markuick 

 has also treated the same subject in the first volume of the Lin- 

 nean Transactions, and Mr. Lamlert, in the third, has given 

 some account of those of the feathered tribe which visit Wiltshire. 



Ed. 



