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An observing Devonshire gentleman tells me that they fre- 
quent some parts of Dartmoor, and breed there ; but leave those 
haunts about the end of September or beginning of October, and 
return again about the end of March. 
Another intelligent person assures me that they breed in gi-eat 
abundance all over the Peak of Derby, and are called there tor- 
ousels; withdraw in October and J^ovember, and return in 
spring. This information seems to throw some light on my 
new migration. 
THE RING-OUZEL. 
Scopoli's^ new work (which I have just procured) has its 
merit in ascertaining many of the birds of the Tyrol and Car- 
niola. Monographers, come from whence they may, have, I 
think, fair pretence to challenge some regard and approbation 
from the lovers of natural history; for, as no man can alone 
investigate all the works of nature, these partial waiters may, 
each in their department, be more accurate in their discoveries, 
and freer from errors, than more general AA riters ; and so by 
^ Annus Prinins Historico-Naturiilis. 
