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Ihc fpot about Eallbourn, by ihe neighbouring inhab'tants ; others 

 aie picked and fent up to the London pouherers, and many are 

 potted, being as much elleemed in England as the Ortolan on the 

 continent. 



It is true, the Wheat-ear abounds in thofe parts as in former 

 times ; but the pafTing ftranger, who, from thefe details, might be in- 

 duced to expe6l in his vifits to any of the towns or villages in the vi- 

 cinity, a difti of thefe Englifh ortalans^ at a moderate charge, will be 

 ferioufly difappointcd. The influx of vifitors from the metropolis 

 into thofe parts during the bathing feafon, (the time in which thofe 

 birds are common,) has efFe6^ed a change fo material in this iefpe(5t 

 within the laft few years, that we may almoft with as much confi- 

 dence confult the regulations of the*' 8th Hairy" for the prices of 

 the prefent London markets, as confult the authors of ten or twenty 

 years ago for the prefent price of Wheat-cars in the neighbourhood 

 .of Eaftbourn. Five, ten, or fifteen fhillings a dozen, is fometimes 

 paid for thefe birds^and thought not very immoderate ; — it certainly is 

 not, compared with that of the potted Wheat-ear, the price of which, 

 in the fummer of 1813, as we found charged by a purveyor in thefe 

 delicacies refident in the town of Brighton, was three half-crowns a 

 pot, each pot containing two birds ! — Such are the charges for frefh 

 and potted Wheat-ears, at the watering places of Suflex, at leail tgt 

 the occafional vifitors. 



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