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NATURAL HISTORY 
LETTER XXXL 
TO THE SAME. 
DEAR SIR, Selborne, Sept. 14, 1770. 
You faw, I find, the ring-oufels again among their native 
crags ; and are farther alTured that they continue refident in thofe 
cold regions the whole year. From whence then do our ring- 
oufels migrate fo regularly every September, and make their 
appearance again, as if in their return, every April!' They are 
more early this year than common, for fome were feen at the 
ufual hill on the fourth of this month. 
An obferving Devonjloire gentleman tells me that they frequent 
fome parts of Dartmoor, and bi'eed there ; but leave thofe haunts 
about the end of September or beginning of Oiioher, and return 
again about the end of March. 
Another intelligent perfon aflures me that they breed in great 
abundance all over the Teak of Derby, and are called there Tor- 
oufels ', withdraw in OBober and November, and return in fpring. 
This information feems to throw fome light on my new 
migration. 
Scopoli's"" new work (which I have juft procured) has it's merit 
in afcertaining many of the birds of the Tirol and Carniola. 
Monographers, come from whence they may, have, I think, 
fair pretence to challenge fome regard and approbation from the 
" Annul Prima Hifiorico-Naturalis, 
lovers 
