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Ring lamfel. Kram, 3 GO. 

 Ri.igeJ-A.mfei. Frijch, 1. SO. 

 Mwyalchen y graig. Camden. Brit, 795. 



The length of this bird is eleven inches ; the breadth feventeen. 

 The crefeent of white on the breaft is more obfcure in the female 

 than in the male ; in the former it is fometimes wholly wanting, and 

 hence fome writers on birds have made the male and female two 

 diftincl: fpeoies *. Mr. Latham mentions feveral varieties, one quite 

 white ; a fecond fpotted with white ; and a third, which is bigger 

 than the common one, fpotted with white, and without any crefeent 

 on the breaft. 



This appears to be a migratory fpecies in moft parts of Europe. 

 It is met with in Burgundy in France, about the beginning of October, 

 but ftays there only two or three weeks; it returns there again in 

 April or May for a fhort time only; it is found as high as Lapmark, 

 but not in RuJJia or Siberia f ; it is alfo found in Africa and Afia ac- 

 cording to Adanfon, and other authors. 



It breeds in the North of Wales, in Cumberland and Scotland ; 

 but is very rarely feen in the Southern parts of this country, except 

 during its migrations, at which time it flies in fmall flocks of five or 

 fix. Mr. Pennant fays they are known to breed in Dartmoor, in 

 Devonfhire, in banks on the fides of ftreams, and that they are very 

 clamorous when difturbed ; he further adds, thofe that breed in Wales 

 and Scotland never quit thofe countries ; in the laft they breed in the 

 hills, but defcend to the lower parts to feed on the berries of the 

 Mountain Afh. 



* Ring-Ouzel and Rock-Ounel. f Pennant, 



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