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The downs, especially to the south, where they are less abrupt, are in many places under the plough; and the attention of the shepherds is there particularly required to keep the flocks from trespassing.
Page 31. Line 13.
"While his boy visits every wired trap—"
Square holes cut in the turf, into which a wire noose is fixed, to catch Wheatears. Mr. White says, that these birds (Motacilla oenanthe) are never taken beyond the river Adur, and Beding Hill; but this is certainly a mistake.
Line 15.
"The timid migrants, who from distant wilds,—"
These birds are extremely fearful, and on the slight-
