l6 Mr, Markwick'j Catalogue of Birds 



No. 55. — The Brambling. Frmgi/la Mont if ring! I/a. 



This bird is fometimes driven hither (as I fuppofe) by the feve- 

 rity of the winter in more northern countries. I have met with a 

 few inftances of it in verv hard winters. 





No. .57. — The Si/kin. Fringilla Spinus, 



The vit'its of this bird to us in this neighbourhood feem to be 

 very irregular and uncertain. Some years ago, I faw it feveral 

 times, in the month of April only, frequenting fome fir-trees near 

 my houfe, as may be fcen in my Table publilhed in the Firfl Vo- 

 lume of the Linnean Tr an factions; but for thefe lad fourteen 

 years I have never ieen it once* 



No. 59.' — The fpotted Flycatcher. Mufclcapa Grifcta. 



The chief food of this bird being flies, it does not make its ap- 

 pearance here till late in the fpring, — never before May. A pair 

 of thefe birds have conftantly built their neft, every year, in the 

 fame hole of the wall of my houfe, for a great number of years; 

 which leaves but little room to doubt, that the fame individual 

 birds return every year to the fame place to build their neft. From 

 whence do they come ? Do they come from a far diftant country 

 (lying perhaps on the other fide the equator), and repair annually 

 to the fame identical fpot for the purpofe of incubation .? or, Do 

 they, at the proper feafon of the year, come out from their hiding- 

 place near at hand, where they have paffed the winter in a torpid 

 ftate, fecure from the feverity of that feafon ? 



No. 69.— The greater Pettychaps. Sylvia hortenfis. 



I have had two birds in my pofleflion, which, from their fize, I 

 am perfuaded were of this fpecies : there was fome difference in 

 their colour, one being of a more olivaceous green than the other; 



and 



