. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . to confirmthe idea that the greateft part of them quit thisifland in fearch of warmer climates. As thefummer declines, the congregating flocks increafein numbers daily by the conftant acceffion of thefecond broods ; till at laft they fwarm in myriadsupon myriads round the villages on the Thames,darkening the face of the iky as they frequent the BRITISH BIRDS. 257 aits of that river, where they rooll: They retirein vail flocks together about the beginning of Oc-tober.* He adds, that they appeared of lateyears in confiderable numbers in
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . to confirmthe idea that the greateft part of them quit thisifland in fearch of warmer climates. As thefummer declines, the congregating flocks increafein numbers daily by the conftant acceffion of thefecond broods ; till at laft they fwarm in myriadsupon myriads round the villages on the Thames,darkening the face of the iky as they frequent the BRITISH BIRDS. 257 aits of that river, where they rooll: They retirein vail flocks together about the beginning of Oc-tober.* He adds, that they appeared of lateyears in confiderable numbers in the neighbour-hood of Selborne, for one day or two, as late asNovember the gd and 6th, after they were fup-pofed to have been gone for more than a fort-night. He concludes with this obfervation :— Unlefs thefe birds are very Ihort-lived indeed, orunlefs they do not return to the diftridt where theyhave been bred, they muft undergo vaft devafta-tions fomehow and fomewhere; for the birds thatreturn yearly bear no manner of proportion tothofe that 258 BRITISH EIRD3.
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