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when kept tame, is fond of eating iioney and cara- 
way comfits, and prognosticates a storm by eating 
its own dung.’ One of the most important of the 
feather tribe which he mentions, is the Caper- 
caillie, tlien found in the pine foi’est of Glenmori- 
ston and Strathglass, which may be looked upon as 
the latest indications of the remains of this splen- 
did bird. I believe he also continues the only au- 
thority for the introduction of the Pine Grossbeak 
( Pyrrhula eniicleutor) to the ornithology of Scot- 
land : he saw them in August flying in the forests 
about Invercauld. 
He finished this tour by Inverary, Glasgow, and 
Edinburgh. Taking from thence the bleak road to 
Moflat, be visited Dr Walker, and entering Eng- 
land again by Gretna and Carlisle, arrived at his 
home in safety, after an absence of nearly three 
months. 
The pleasure he enjoyed during this tour, and the 
information he received, so necessary to the next 
editions of his British Zoology, induced him to un- 
dertake another, and to extend bis researches farther, 
into what he had found an interesting country, and 
to judge of it for himself — or, as he somewhere 
quotes, 
“ Yet still by Nature, not by censure try.” 
He commenced his second journey in the summer 
of 1772, “in order,” he says “to render more com- 
plete my preceding tour, and to allay that species of 
