BRITISH BIRDS. 
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ceeded.” He then, in the next sentence says, “ Mr 
Daniel assures us that they are now plentiful near Or- 
ford, in Suffolk, by the Marquis of Hertford having 
imported many thousand eggs, which were hatched 
under hens, and liberated f and that this gentleman 
found a covey of birds in 1777, near Colchester, con- 
sisting of fourteen, several of which he shot. It has 
been represented to the author by several of his friends, 
that these birds have become so numerous, in some of 
the eastern counties of England, that they have banish- 
ed the native breed. 
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