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little parties In the autumn cantoned all along the Sujfcx downs, 
wherever there were (hrubs and bulhes, from Chichejler to Lcwcs ; 
particularly in the autumn of 1770. I am. Sec. 
LETTER XXXIX. 
TO THE SAME. 
DEAR SIR, Seleorne, Nov. 9, 1773. 
As you defire me to fend you fuch obfervations as may occur, I 
take the liberty of making the following remarks, that you may, 
according as you think me right or wrong, admit or rejecfV what 
I here advance, in your intended new edition of the Britijlo Zoology. 
The ofprey p was fliot about a year ago at Frinpam-pond, a 
great lake, at about fix miles from hence, while it was fitting on 
the handle of a plough and devouring a filh : it ufed to precipi- 
tate itfelf into the water, and fo take it's prey by furprife. 
A great afh-coloured 1 butcher-bird was Ihot laft winter in Tijled- 
pxrk, and a red backed butcher-bird at Selborne : they are vara aves 
in this county. 
Crows' go in pairs the whole year round. 
CorniJJ) choughs ' abound, and breed on Beachy-head and on all 
the cliffs of the Su[fcx coafl. 
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