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gu says that he could never ascertain the 
feet. 
With respect to its migration, we are of 
opinion that it continues with vis much longer 
than is generally supposed, having received a 
specimen killed in the month of November* 
the portrait of which accompanies this article. 
And the above respectable author likewise 
assures us, in his Ornithological Dictionary, 
that " the only two which came under his 
inspection, (both of which were males,) were 
killed, one on the fifteenth and the other on 
the twenty-second of November, in Wiltshire," 
And in the Supplement to the same work in- 
forms us that he received another male speci- 
men in the month of Feb. 1 807. This " and 
two or three others of the same sex, obtained 
also in the winter months, indicate, he ob- 
serves, that it only accidentally comes to us 
in its autumnal migration from the North of 
Europe to a more Southern climate ; being 
sometimes forced to vary its longitudinal 
course, and thus driven on the Eastern parts 
of Great Britain." 
In spring and summer it is said . to imitate 
the notes of other birds, by way of decoying 
