don being with us, was amusing himself with a gun, 

 and found, he told us, on an old yew hedge Avhere 



A f)iendlv chat on Selbor}ie street. 



there were berries, some birds like blackbirds, with 

 rings of white round their necks : a neighbouring 

 farmer also at the same time observed the same : but, 

 as no specimens were procured, little notice was 

 taken. I mentioned this circumstance to you in my 



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