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Birds. 
the crow, to mark and announce the approach of danger. 
On any person approaching a tree that is covered with 
them, they continue fearless, till one at the extremity of 
the bush, rising on its wings, gives a loud and peculiar 
note of alarm. They then all fly away, except one, 
which continues till the person approaches still nearer, 
to certify, as it were, the reality of the danger, and 
afterwards he also flies off, repeating the note of alarm. 
Mr. Knapp, in his " Journal of a Naturalist," says, 
that in the county of Gloucestershire the extensive 
low-lands of the river Severn, in open weather, are 
visited by prodigious flocks of these birds. 
THE KING OUZEL. (Turdus torquatus.) 
The Eing Ouzel differs from the fieldfare and redwing, 
to which it is nearly allied, in being a summer visitor 
to the British islands, instead of a winter one. It is 
found only in the wildest and most mountainous dis- 
tricts ; particularly among the Welsh mountains and on 
Dartmoor, in Devonshire, where it has been known to 
breed. 
