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nesting of the King-Ouzel is to be found in the many excellent local works on birds which have 

 been published during the last few years. In the county of Middlesex, Mr. Harting says, it is a 

 passing visitant, appearing in spring and autumn. He says : — " I have three specimens of this 

 bird in my collection, all obtained in the neighbourhood of Kingsbury ; and I have seen others 

 that were killed at Kilburn, Hampstead, Hendon, Edgeware, and Harrow Weald. Two of those 

 which I have were shot as late as the 25th of April, and proved to be a pair. They had been 

 observed on an unfrequented tract of land, with three others, for more than a fortnight pre- 

 viously; and it appeared, from a close examination, that both birds must have been sitting, 

 inasmuch as the breast of each was destitute of the soft down which always covers it before 

 incubation has commenced. I found, moreover, rudimentary eggs in the ovary of the female. 

 I then regretted that the birds had been shot; for it would have been interesting to have 

 established the fact of the Ring-Ouzel bi*eeding in this country. The remaining three birds I 

 watched daily, in the hope of discovering a nest, until the 1st of May, when they disappeared. 

 I have since heard that, in 1861, a pair of Ring-Ouzels were killed at Hampstead as late as the 

 11th of May. They were shot by Mr. Ward in Mill-field Lane, while feeding on some ivy-berries 

 within twenty yards of his house." The present species has been seen by Mr. Edward Bartlett 

 in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park ; and we have ourselves had specimens which had 

 been caught by the bird-catchers on Hampstead Heath. Mr. Stevenson says that to Norfolk it is 

 " a regular migratory visitant, though, for the most part, in small numbers, passing northward in 

 spring and southward in autumn, appearing generally in April and October: in April 1856, 

 Ring-Ouzels were unusually numerous during their autumn migration, as appeared from the 

 various notices at the time of their occurrence in different parts of England; and in April 1859, 

 when~ these birds and Hoopoes were unusually plentiful at the same time, at least thirty speci- 

 mens were brought to one bird-preserver in Norwich to be stuffed. Their numbers, however, in 

 autumn are generally very small compared with those that arrive here in spring." Mr. Stevenson 

 gives some instances of the nesting of the present species in Norfolk and Suffolk, and believes 

 that it still breeds in certain localities in the former county. In Derbyshire it is by no means 

 uncommon in certain localities. Mr. Sterland records an instance of its breeding in Nottingham- 

 shire, in the vicinity of Sherwood Forest, and mentions an immature male killed at Edwinstowe 

 on the 26th of November, 1856, which is a very late occurrence of the species in this country. 

 Captain Feilden kindly sends us the accompanying note: — "The Ring-Ouzel is a spring visitant 

 to Lancashire, and it breeds there regularly. It is common during the breeding-season on 

 Withnell and Anglezark Moors, an elevated heath-clad district which lies between the towns of 

 Bolton and Chorley. On these moors I have frequently procured nests of the Ring-Ouzel, and 

 invariably found them in banks of watercourses." 



We give below a very good account of the Ring-Ouzel in Yorkshire, communicated to us by 

 Mr. Henry Seebohm, from observations made in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. Yarrell also 

 writes : — " Mr. Allis, of York, tells me that it breeds in the higher moorlands of Yorkshire ; and 

 the eggs of this bird in my own collection were sent me by Mr. Leyland, of Halifax. 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 



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