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will then alight at a short distance, survey the aggressor, 
and again resume their flight and cries. The young are 
barely able to fly by the 12th of August, and appear to 
leave the nest some time before they are able to rise 
from the ground. I have taken them, on that great day 
to sportsmen, squatted on the heath like young black 
game, at no great distance from each other, and always 
attended by the parent birds. Last year (1831) I found 
them in their old haunts, to which they appear to return 
very regularly.” 
Mr. Hoy, in a communication in “ Loudon’s Magazine,” 
says, “ I am acquainted with two localities in the south¬ 
western part of Norfolk, where pairs of this bird breed, 
and I have known several instances of their eggs and 
young being found. One situation is on a dry heathy 
soil, the nest placed on the ground amongst high heath, 
the other in low fenny ground, among sedge and rushes.” 
Mr. Alfred Newton tells me that this species used to 
breed yearly in the fens of West Norfolk; he says ,—“ l 
have also heard of nests in the uplands, and though I 
doubt not that it still breeds occasionally in places which 
are sufficiently rough with sedge or heather, yet I have 
not heard of a nest within the last few years in this 
neighbourhood.” 
These observations have a twofold interest, and show 
that this species does not confine itself in England to 
the north, or its breeding place to the highland heathery 
moors. 
