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REMARKS ON DISTRIBUTION. 
of the same species being found in various quarters 
of the globe, applies, though less forcibly, to the 
family of the Pies and to the Shrikes. The appetite 
of the Raven extends to every sort of animal food : 
it has of necessity a roaming disposition and it is 
spread over the globe from the northern countries 
to the Cape of Good Hope. The Crow and Magpie 
also enjoy a very extensive range and the latter is 
found in America. Those Pies however which are 
in some degree granivorous, or less decidedly car¬ 
nivorous, are not so widely dispersed or of so 
roaming a disposition,—the Rook, the Jackdaw, the 
Jay, the Hooded Crow, and the Chough. The 
Great Shrike has a range almost equal to that of 
the Raven, while the Flusher, which is chiefly in¬ 
sectivorous, is confined to Europe or extends at 
most to Egypt. Among land birds therefore, the 
Accipitres, and rapacious or carnivorous Passeres 
enjoy the most extensive distribution. The King¬ 
fisher, a piscivorous bird, is also very widely dis¬ 
persed, being common to Europe, Asia and Africa. 
The Waders and Web Tooted birds are however 
more extensively distributed than land birds, more 
especially the former, as we may have occasion 
to observe hereafter. Fish enjoy a very wide range, 
but quadrupeds seem to characterize the natural 
divisions of the earth, at least in a great measure. 
The other tribes are likewise in some degree cha¬ 
racteristic of different quarters of the world. 
Proceeding in our comparison of the cultivated 
parts of Devon with Oxfordshire we come next to 
the Scansores, in w T hich division we do not possess 
more species than are met with in Oxfordshire, or 
most other counties. 
In the Gallinae we have the advantage of Oxford¬ 
shire in possessing the Stock Dove , a bird which 
appears here in large flocks in winter, but is not 
noticed at other times. 
