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curing the, wU^i boar and his matp from the forests of 

 Germany, which once certainly inhabited: the forests of 

 England. I have heard that th«y propag?ited greatly in 

 New Fttrest ; certain it is there is found in it, at this day 

 a breed of hogs, commonly called forest hogs,, which are 

 very, different from the usual Hampshire breed, which 

 have about them several of the, characteristics of the 

 wild boar." 



To the lover of birds, whether as a sportsman or a 

 naturalist, the New Forest is a district of great interest : 

 for, in consequence of the diversity in the surface and 

 the vegetation, the note of every bird may be heard,, from 

 the piteous note of the twite — the appropriate, bird of 

 desolation, — to the murmuring, of the ring-dove, 'in 

 shadiest covert hid.' The moorland places are not 

 sufficiently elevated for any of the species of , grouse, 

 but the whistle of the plover greets one immediately 

 arfter qpitting the lonely habitalipn of the twite; and 

 thepj as one approaches :the mossy, bottom, of whichthere 

 a^e (Several in the fpre§t, the lapwing alternately tumbles 

 along, the earth and twitches through the air, to decoy 

 the passenger from the habitatipn of its young. Some of 

 these birds, -virhich are migrant, in other parts of Britain, 

 are resident summer and winter within the natural district 

 of the New Forest, 



The winter visitants, the survivors of all dimensions and 

 from all parts of the northern regions, are also plentiful, 

 when the winter seals up the waters, and drives them 

 from their native north. Some species which: aj;e rare 

 even in Scotland are foupd more plentifully here. 



By an Act of Parliament, passed in 1857, the right of 

 tlxe Croym to keep deer in the New Forest was: extin- 

 guished, and, cdmpensation in lieu thereof was given. 

 But, more impprtant than the forest pastor?!, industry, 

 BO plpasii^gly described, by Gilpifl,, an4 more iroportant, 

 th£a?.„t]i&,ii^i|tti^]i<?@>of gajDj^ei is! t^.productioajofiiw])ie& 



