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No. 44.— The Chatterer. Ampelis Garrulus. 

 This rare bird fometimes makes its appearance here in hard 

 winters : I have met with two inftances of it. 



No. 45. — The Crofs-bill. Lox/a Curvirofra. 



I have known two or three inftances of this bird being killed in 

 the neighbourhood. A male bird of this fpecies was fent mc by 

 a friend on the 15th of January 1795. 



No. 46. — The Hawfinch. Loxia Coccothraufles. 



Two inftances of this bird's being met with here, in hard winters, 

 have fallen within my obfervation. 



No. 54. — The Chaffinch. Fringilla ccekbs, 



Mr. White, in his Natural Hiftory of Selborne, aflerts, that 

 only the hen Chaffinches are to be feen in winter at that place ; or, 

 at moft, but very few cocks among them. Such a circumftance 

 (which confirms Linnseus's account of the migration of the female 

 Chaffinches only) happening fo near to this place as the very next 

 county, has induced me to take particular notice of thefe birds, 

 efpecially in the winter. Not long fince, as I was riding, I obferved 

 a number of Chaffinches in the hedges on each fide of the road, 

 and, as far as I could diftinguifh, moft of them appeared to be 

 cocks. I now began to think that I had difcovered fome traces of 

 this partial migration, and that the hens were gone, and had left 

 their mates behind them : but my fubfeqnent oblervations have not 

 tended to confirm this idea ; for, fince that time, I have feen at 

 lead as many hens as cocks ; particularly on the 22d of this month, 

 January 1795, nineteen of thefe birds were killed and brought to 

 me. On examination, there proved to be ten females and nine 

 males ; fo that I muft revert back to my original opinion, that no 

 fuch partial migration of one lex only takes place here. 



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