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may bo found in almost all woods and plantations throughout the 

 County. 



Hero we may take leave of the Conirostral Tribe, and we may 

 remark in conclusion how gradually we have been conducted 

 through the Larks and Buntings up to the Finches, some of which 

 display such exceeding power of beak, and live wholly on grain ; 

 and so on through the Starlings and Crows down to the Jay, om- 

 nivorous feeders as these last are, so that the transition to the next 

 tribe, distinct though it is, will not be so rapid, and we can pass 

 on without much hiatus and almost imperceptibly to the family 

 standing first of the climbers, viz : the Woodpeckers, which we 

 shall find in many points have affinities with those last described. 



Alfred Charles Smith. 



Yatesbury Rectory, Calne, 

 March 8th, 1860. 



