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many species of British birds, some of which 

 are not to be found in the enclosed lands of 

 the neighbourhood. As there is now a plan 

 on foot to procure an Act of Parliament for the 

 enclosure of this sweet common, I have caused 

 to be printed, and to be distributed gratis, a 

 few observations to put the public on their 

 guard. The good people of Wakefield have 

 expressed themselves highly satisfied with my 

 feeble attempt to serve their cause. 



As natural history is too much interested not 

 to put her veto to the proposed enclosure, I 

 make bold to offer to the public at large my 

 recent little publication, with a faint hope that 

 it may operate in some degree to retard the 

 enclosure of the few commons which still re- 

 main to us. Every enclosure of such lands is 

 a serious loss to the field naturalist, who has 

 no land of his own whereon to correct the 

 errors which he will unavoidably imbibe in his 

 researches for information within the precincts 

 of his own closet. 



" HEATH COMMON. 



? Wakefield, — once Merry Wakefield ! — why 

 art thou so no longer ? What envious hand 



