OF BIRDS. 
57' 
The RING OUZEL. 
Its plumage at a didance feems blackifli, but upon exa¬ 
mination each feather is margined with grey, or ath.colour; 
on the bread is a large patch, or crcfcont of white, and the 
iulido of the beak is yellow. 
The Ring Ouzel feems to be a bird of pafTage, 
though his migrations are not very diftinCtly 
known. In October they are feen in fome parts 
of France, they come there in fmall flocks, from 
twelve to fifteen, and ftay but a few weeks: 
They dift.p^ar when the frolts begin, and return 
again in April or May. At certain feafons they 
are feen in greater numbers in Sweden, Scotland, 
Savoy, Switzerland, and Greece : it is probable 
too that they are difperled in fome parts of Alia, 
Africa, and in fome of the iflands near the Afri¬ 
can coaft. 
They have been obferved in Hampfhire twice 
a year, in April, and September, in flocks of 
twenty or thirty; thofe that breed in ScotianJ, and 
Wales, never leave their native country: in Scot¬ 
land they breed amongft the hills, but come down 
to feed on the berries of the mountain afh. 
On Dart-moor? in Devonfliire, they build in 
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