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PECTORAL FINCHES (AUSTRALIAN) 



CHAPTER VIII 

 RING OUZELS AND WATER OUZELS 



" However dressed, and wherever born, the ouzel is essentially 

 a mountain-torrent bird." 



HOW few people know much about one of 

 the handsomest British birds — the ring ouzel ; 

 partly because he is not a winter resident, he 



is very local, and he is seldom seen as a cage bird. 



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