. A history of British birds . PASSERES. KING-OTJZEL. 287TUJtD/D^:.. TuRDUS TORQUATUS, Liimaeus*. THE RING-OUZEL. Tiudus torqaatus. The Ring-Ouzel is a summer-visitor to the British Islands,arriving regularly in April; and, passing without much delayover the enclosed and less hilly districts, it repairs to thewilder and more mountainous parts of the country, where itspends the summer, returning in September or October, whenit is seen in flocks, and often makes a longer stay. Whiteof Selborne, who took an especial interest in the appearanceof this bird, mentions that some were seen in the Fores
. A history of British birds . PASSERES. KING-OTJZEL. 287TUJtD/D^:.. TuRDUS TORQUATUS, Liimaeus*. THE RING-OUZEL. Tiudus torqaatus. The Ring-Ouzel is a summer-visitor to the British Islands,arriving regularly in April; and, passing without much delayover the enclosed and less hilly districts, it repairs to thewilder and more mountainous parts of the country, where itspends the summer, returning in September or October, whenit is seen in flocks, and often makes a longer stay. Whiteof Selborne, who took an especial interest in the appearanceof this bird, mentions that some were seen in the Forestof Bere on the borders of Hampshire, at Christmas, 1770, aseason which had been marked by almost incessant rain fromthe middle of October, but the occurrence of the Ring-Ouzel * Syst. Nat. Etl. 12, i. p. 296 (1766). 288 :. in winter seems otherwise unknown in Great Britain, for theinformation, received l\y Pennant, as to its residing in Scot-land all the year round is plainly erroneous. It also occasion-ally happens that a nest is found in places far remo
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