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Tts plumage ata diflance feems blackifh, but upon exa-- 
: mination each feather is margined’with grey, or alh-colour 5, 
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‘on the breaft is a large patch, or crefcent of watt and ‘aad : 
: infide of the beak is yellow. : ; | 1d ¥NiCO 
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“The Ring Out feems to be a bird of paffage, 
though his migrations are not very diftinétly” 
Known. In Oétober they are feen in fome parts | 
of F rance, they come there in fmall flocks, from ° 
twelve to fifteen, and ftay but a few weeks: 
They difappear when the frofts begin, and return : 
| again | in April or May. At certain.feafons they - 
4 are feen.in greater numbers in. Sweden, Scotland, ; 
a davoy, Switzerland, and Greece: it iS probable 
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too that they are difperfed in fome. parts of Afia, . 
_ Africa, and in fome of the iflands near the Airis - 
Can coat. . . 
__» They have been obferved in Hampfhire twice ; 
a year, in.April, and September, .in flocks of - 
twenty or thirty; thofe that breed in Scotland, and a 
Wales, never leave their native country: inScot- . 
land they breed amongft the hills, but come down 
to feed’on the berries of the mountain afh, 
-On Dart-moore in Devonshire, they build-in» 
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