LETTER XXXVII. 

 To Thomas Pennant, Esq. 



You saw, I find, the ring-ousels again among their 

 native crags ; and are further assured that they con- 



Ring-onsels, 



tinue resident in those cold regions the whole year. 

 From whence then do our ring-ousels migrate so reg- 

 ularly every September, and make their appearance 

 again, as if in their return, every April ? They are 

 more early this year than common, for some were 

 seen at the usual hill on the fourth of this month. 



An observing Devonshire gentleman tells me that 



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