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here, and particoloured specimens of all the above 
named. 
In all cultivated districts abounding in wood and 
productive of an extensive Flora, as is the south of 
Devon, we necessarily meet with a great variety of 
birds belonging to the Passerine order. In the 
central portions of South Devon, now under con- 
sideration, there are but few birds besides the 
Passeres (Cuvierian system) observed, and these 
excepting a very few species, may be regarded as 
in great measure peculiar to this central part. 
The Ring Ouzel and Water Ouzel may to a cer- 
_ tain extent, be considered as Dartmoor birds, but 
some no doubt have been seen beyond those pre- 
cincts, and a pair of the latter build yearly in a 
fish-house not far from me, and very close to a flour 
mill, a saw-mill, and several other houses, being 
also within fifty yards of the main road. The Raven, 
Hooded Crow and Nutcracker likewise, are birds | 
which can scarcely be claimed for the ornithology 
of a cultivated tract, though the first two roam at 
times over every variety of country. 
The entire number of birds wholly or partially in- 
habiting the cultivated, wooded, and well watered 
part of Devon we are now speaking of may be 
estimated at about 141,—allowing about 13 to be 
Accipitres, 5 Scansores, 5 Galline, 8 Palmipides, 
about 22 Gralle, and 88 Passeres,—the total being 
more than one-half of the whole South Devon 
list, computed at 247, the remainder being made 
up by those few birds more peculiarly belonging 
to the Moors, and by the great variety of those 
waders and web-footed birds furnished by our 
coasts and hereafter to be noticed. But, giving 
all due weight to these last-named sources in 
swelling our ornithological list, that part of it 
which we are now more especially examining is 
found by comparison with ornithological lists of 
