f 313 J! 



traverfe oceans, and when they cannot as yet have 

 pitched upon a proper place for concealing their neft 

 and nefliings ? 



Let us examine if this intercourfe before migration 

 takes place in other birds, which are fuppofed to crofs 

 wide extents of fea : and a quail affords fuch proof., 



I have been prefent when thefe birds, have been 

 caught in the fpring, which always turn out to be 

 males, and are enticed to the nets by the call of the 

 hen; quails therefore pair after they appear in Eng- 

 land. 



But I mall now confider the other two inflances 

 of birds which are feen with us in the winter, and are 

 not obferved in, the fummer; .1 mean, the fieldfare 

 and redwing. 



And firft, let us examine, where thefe birds are 

 actually known to breed: the northern naturalifts 

 fay, in Sweden; Klein, in the neighbourhood of 

 Dantzick, which is only in lat. 54. 30' *; and Wii- 

 lughby, in Bohemia. 



in the receffes of the woods (Hift. Nai. des .Oifeaux,- torn. L) 

 fuch irregular intercourfe is only obferved in cages and aviaries, 

 Inhere birds are riot only confined, but pampered with food. 



* See Klein, de Avibus Erraticis, p. 178. Klein* however, 

 cites Zornius, who lived in the fame part of Germany, and 

 who afferts that the turdui liiacus (or redwing) leaves thofe parts 

 in the fpring. The circumftance therefore of the redwing's 

 breeding in numbers (per multitudines)^h&d efcaped. the notice 

 cf Zornius, though he hath written a <differtation on this 

 njueftion. 



Is it atalkfurprizing-, after this, that fuch difcoveries, if mads 

 at all, fhould not be commonly heard of I - 



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