. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. \ WktteChroat LETTER XXV. â ;^r>4if'-'^ML\A/".-. to the same. Sblmrnb, Aug. loth, 1769. |EAR SIR,âIt gives me satisfaction to find that my account of the ousel migration pleases you. You put a very shrewd question when you ask me how I know that their autumnal migration is southward .^ Was not candour and openness the very life of natural history, I should pass over this quer, just as a sly commentator does over a crabbed passage in a classic ; but common ingenuousness obliges me to confess, not withou
. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. \ WktteChroat LETTER XXV. â ;^r>4if'-'^ML\A/".-. to the same. Sblmrnb, Aug. loth, 1769. |EAR SIR,âIt gives me satisfaction to find that my account of the ousel migration pleases you. You put a very shrewd question when you ask me how I know that their autumnal migration is southward .^ Was not candour and openness the very life of natural history, I should pass over this quer, just as a sly commentator does over a crabbed passage in a classic ; but common ingenuousness obliges me to confess, not without some degree of shame, that I only reasoned in that case from analogy. For as all other autumnal birds migrate from the northward to us, to partake of our milder winters, and return to the northward again when the rigorous cold abates, so I concluded that the ring-ousels did the same, as well as their con- geners the fieldfares ; and especially as ring-ousels are known to haunt cold mountainous countries : but I have good reason to suspect since that they may come to us from the westward ; because I hear, from very good authority, that they breed on Dartmoor ; and that they forsake that wild district about the time that our visitors appear, and do not return till late in the spring. I have taken a great deal of pains about your salicaria and mine, with a white stroke over its eye and a tawny rump. I have sur- ' 't n i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Gilbert, 1720-1793; Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London; New York : J. Lane
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