. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . haunts,when the various fruits are ripe, suffer considerably fromtheir repeated visits. But soon the fruit is gathered,and the Ring Ousels must see about their great leave their haunts solitarily, or in little parties, butas they journey southwards they congregate in flocks, THE RING OUSEL, 51 and very probably keep in flocks throughout the winter,and until they return once more to their northernbreeding-grounds. The moors glow in all the splendourof their purple tin
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . haunts,when the various fruits are ripe, suffer considerably fromtheir repeated visits. But soon the fruit is gathered,and the Ring Ousels must see about their great leave their haunts solitarily, or in little parties, butas they journey southwards they congregate in flocks, THE RING OUSEL, 51 and very probably keep in flocks throughout the winter,and until they return once more to their northernbreeding-grounds. The moors glow in all the splendourof their purple tints, the woods and coppices are alreadytouched by autumns magic wand, and the Ring Ouselsmust not tarry. To do so would probably be death ; forpeaceful and lovely as the scene now appears, the winteris nigh with all its terrors, and the Ring Ousels,by Naturesmandates commanded, leave the moor and the moun-tain, to spend their winter secure in a southern clime. Ithas been said that the Ring Ousel winters in England ;but from my knowledge of the habits of this bird,the case is only analogous with the Swallow, E2. THE BLACKBIRD, He who makes field ornithology his study will notfail to notice how each district, varying in its scenery,possesses birds peculiar to it alone. Thus the Red Grouseloves his lonely moor ; the Lapwing delights to soar inreeling flight over the naked common ; the Woodpeckerloves the silent woods, and the Landrail his pastoralhaunt. Birds of the Thrush family, too, exhibit this pre-ference in a marked degree. Thus we find the Thrush,Blackbird, and Redwing inhabit, as a rule, our pastorallands and shrubberies; the Fieldfare is a wanderer ;while the family is represented by the Missel-thrush inthe woods and. wilder districts ; while, yet again, theheath-covered moor and mountain-sides have their charmfor the Ring Ousel. It is in the shrubberies, where the laurels, the yews,and the hollies spread their glossy branches, and wherethe ivy climbs up the trees in wild
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