Cass IE. RING-OUZEL. 
They are alfo found to breed in Dartmoor, in 
Devonfbire, in banks on the fides of ftreams. I 
have feen them in the fame fituation in Wales, 
very clamorous when difturbed. 
They are obferved by the Rev. Mr. White, 
of Selborn, near Alton, Hants, to vifit his neigh- 
bourhood regularly twice a year, in flocks of twenty 
or thirty, about the middle of April, and again 
about Michaelmas. They make it only a refting 
place in their way to fome other country; in their 
{pring migration they only ftay a week, in their 
autumnal a fortnight. They feed there on haws, 
and for want of them on yew berries. On difiecti- 
on, the females were found full of the {mall rudi- 
ments of eggs, which prove them to be later breed- 
ers than any others of this genus, which generally 
have fledged young about that time. The places 
of their retreat is not known’: thofe that breed in 
Wales and Scotland never quitting thofe countries. 
In the laft they breed in the hills, but defcend to 
the lower parts to feed on the berries of the moun- 
tain afh. : 
They migrate in France at the latter feafon: and 
appear in {mall flocks about Montbhard, in Bur- 
gundy, in the beginning of Oéoder, but feldom . 
{tay above two or three weeks. Notwithftanding 
this, they are faid, to breed in So/ogue and the forett 
of Orleans. 
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