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I believe to be varieties of this species; lie tells me that 
he has seen a nest containing eighteen eggs; and Tem- 
minck says that they lay from fifteen to eighteen eggs. 
Mr. Salmon says that, from the wilder nature of this bird, 
it seems to prefer the heathy districts, to those that are 
under cultivation; if this is the case, and it would thrive 
upon the extensive moors of the north of England, it 
would there form a beautiful additional tenant of the soil. 
