ADVERTISEMENT. 
whofe haunts and breeding places are difficult of accefs, and 
the Birds in confequence, little known. The extenfive 
marfhes and lowlands in fome parts of the kingdom, are 
the retreats and breeding places of certain fpecies. Thofe 
folicary kinds, which retire to the depths, and gloomy re- 
ceffes of forefts, are rarely obferved; and many of thofe 
which feek the open plain for fecurity, elude our vigilance, 
and are not better known. But the rareft of the local kinds, 
are of the rapacious and gallinaceous tribes, which never 
leave their dreary folicudes: their wilds and barren moun- 
tains In the north; to vifit the fouthern parts of Great Bni- 
tain. ‘The migratory Birds are numerous, and include many 
well known fpecies, with others that are uncommonly fearce. 
We have taken an extenfive variety of the beautiful Land 
Birds, that refort to this country occafionally from the fouth 
of Europe; and of the aquatic or web-footed tribe, that 
are driven by the feverity of the winter in the Arctic 
regions to feek fhelter on our fhores. Huftory and tradition 
inform us of other Birds that formerly inhabited thefe king- 
doms, but are now extirpated; and thefe form an interefting 
fequel to this felection. We cannot vindicate the pro- 
priety of introducing naturalized exotic fpecies amonett 
thefe, though they are arranged by our Naturalifts in the 
Britifh Ornithology; and in fome inftances we have fol- 
lowed their authority, for the fake of embellifament and 
variety. 6 
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