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and fcatter themfclves all over a country : fo that 

 I fuppofe, the birds Mr. Durand mentions 

 might come from the moft northern parts of 

 Europe, and a great part of them in their 

 paflage turn a little to the weft, through 

 France, and into Spain; and when arrived 

 about Granada, in the fouth of Spain, might 

 feparate into parties, the better to occupy the 

 whole country -, fo that part of them might 

 return a little way northward, along the coafts 

 of Murcia and Valencia, and afterwards fpread 

 themfelves into the inlands. I think this opi- 

 nion no way contradids what Mr. Durand has 

 faid ; what is mentioned of thefe birds feeding 

 and growing fat in Switzerland doth not be- 

 long to this queftion, for it cannot be known, 

 that they are part of the flocks feen paffing on 

 the coaft of Valencia. 



There was publilhed, anno 1745. m i2mo, 

 A new general Hiftory of Birds, with wooden 

 cuts, by J. Ofborn in Pater-nofter-Row, Lon- 

 don ; the author anonymous : in the article of 

 G the 



