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KING OUZEL. 
In Scotland, the Rev, G. Gordon records that it is a regular 
summer visitor in Morayshire, but is only seen sparingly dis¬ 
persed over the range of hills immediately above the cultivated 
districts, where it remains and breeds. So it also does in 
Selkirkshire, Sutherlandshire, Argyleshire, and Edinburghshire; 
in the latter on the Lammermuir and the Pentland Hills. In 
Banffshire, Mr. Thomas Edwards records them as occurring on 
the hills of Tillieminet, Kirkney, Noth, and Clashnadarrow. 
It is also plentiful on the mountains in Wales, and its 
loud song suddenly breaking out here and there on the 
untrodden wild, is a gladsome sound to the wanderer, whom 
it cheers as he journeys on his lonely way. 
In Orkney it is an occasional winter visitant; small flocks 
were observed at Elsness in April, 1822, and again on the 
12th. of April, 1829. Three were shot in San day, October 
14th., 1835: they were numerous in that island during 
October, 1836. It has been also seen in Orphir, and on one 
occasion has been known to breed in the Hebrides, and also 
in the Isle of Skye. 
In Ireland, the late William Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, 
records it as frequenting suitable localities throughout the 
island; the mountains of the counties of Dublin and Wicklow, 
and the high rocky hills of Clare, the Glens, Glenariff, and 
about Cushendall, in Antrim; Rosheen Mountain and Lough 
Salt, in Donegal; Slieve Donard, the loftiest of the mountains 
of Mourne, in Down, and the mountains to its north-west, 
and those above Tollymore Park, the seat of Lord Roden; 
Achill Head—one of the most westerly points of Mayo; the 
heights of the Carlingford Mountain, in Louth; the hills 
about Portumna, on the western border of Galway; Slieve- 
na-mon, and about Clonmel, in the county of Tipperary; 
the Comeragh Mountains in Waterford, the least frequented 
parts of the mountains of Connemara, the mountainous 
districts of the county of Cork, the Mounterlowney Mountains, 
in the county of Tyrone, and the most rocky parts of those 
of Kerry. 
The Ring Ouzel arrives in this country in the end of 
March or beginning of April, and departs in October. 
It is capable of being kept in confinement, and will live 
from six to ten years: it is found in its wild state perching 
on stones, from whence it utters its brief song. Like many 
other birds that build on the ground, it is very clamorous 
if any one approaches the nest, and endeavours to decoy the 
