MIGRATION OF BRITISH BIRDS. 507 



for every county will furnifh new obfervations ; each. 

 of which, when compared, Will ferve to ftrengthen 

 and confirm the other. Such an amufement is 

 worthy of every one, beneath none j but would be- 

 come no order of men better than our clergy, as they 

 are (or ought to be) the beft qualified, and the 

 mod flationary part of the community •, and, 

 as this is a mixed fpecies of feud y (when confidered as 

 phyfico-theology) it is therefore particularly perti- 

 nent to their profeffion. A mod ingenious friend, 

 whom modefty prevents from putting his name to a 

 work that renders obfervations of this kind of the ut- 

 moft facility, has pointed out the way, and methodi- 

 zed every remark that can occur •, the farmer, the 

 fportfman, and the philofopher, will be led to the 

 choice of materials proper to beinferted in thatufeful 

 companion, the NaturalijFs Journal*. 



From the obfervations of our friends, from thofe 

 made by ourfelves, and from the lights afforded us by 

 preceding writers, we fhall, in the brief relation we 

 can pretend to give, proceed in agenerical order, and 

 as far as pofiible, trace each fpecies of bird to its re- 

 treat. 



A few words will explain the caufe of their difap- 

 pearance in thefe northern regions ; a defect of food at 

 certain feafons, or the want of a fecure afylum from 

 the perfecution of man during the time of courtihip, 

 incubation and nutrition. 



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 one {hilling and fix-pence. 



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