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me. 1 have myself seen one or two in the parish of East 
Garston, near Lamborne, Berkshire, one of which was shot 
by my fellow pupil, and afterwards fellow collegian, the late 
Rev. Henry Boys. The Rev. R. P. Alington has known but 
two in his part of Lincolnshire, one shot by his brother, 
and the other, a female in full plumage, by himself several 
years ago. 
W. F. W. Bird, Esq. writes in the ‘Zoologist/ page 2495, 
‘A male Ring Ouzel was killed at Kidderminster, on the 9th. 
of May last, (1849.) Two others, supposed to be nesting, 
were seen a short time previous, at Witley, in the same 
county, and one of them (the male,) was shot/ In War¬ 
wickshire, too, the adjoining county, Mr. A. Evans, of Coventry, 
records in the ‘Zoologist/ pages 2142-3, that the nest and 
eggs of this bird were obtained at Pinley, close to that city, 
on the 25th. of April, 1848, the only instance that was 
known to have occurred there. In the neighbouring county 
of Leicester the nests have also occurred in different years; 
one in the Rookery at Bosworth Park, where five others were 
obtained in 1848. In Norfolk it has been known to breed 
in one or two instances. 
This species is generally considered to be of recluse habits, 
but the Rev. R. W. W. Cobbold, of Thelveton Rectory, in 
Suffolk, has written me word of a pair which built their nest 
in a low Portugal laurel bush, only three feet from the 
ground, and close to where people were continually passing, 
in the grounds of the Manor House of Wortham, Suffolk. 
John Longe, Esq., of Coddenham Vicarage, near Needham, in 
the same county, has also informed me of one, the first he 
ever heard of in that part, which he shot there the beginning 
of September, 1852: it was feeding with some Blackbirds on 
a mulberry tree. 
It breeds on the moors in the northern parts of ‘Famous 
Derbyshire/ as, for instance, in Dovedale and near Buxton, 
the land of ‘Peveril of the. Peak/ and on Dartmoor, in 
Devonshire, as also in Cumberland, Northumberland, West¬ 
moreland, and Durham. In other counties it is observed in 
spring and autumn, for eight or ten days, while on its 
migration, in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Cornwall,, and Sussex. One was caught in a trap 
in a garden at Lambeth, in London; another was shot out 
of a small flock on Wimbledon Common; and one near 
Saffron Walden, in Essex, in the month of August, 1836. 
