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trees, all the Rooks forfook the fpot; but they returned to their 
haunt in the autumn following; and built nefts there the fucceeding 
year. When this circumítance took place, the good Bifhop was 
very ill. -The flight of the Rooks (for at firft the caufe of it was 
not known) was confidered by the. country people as ominoufly 
portending the death of the pofieffor.. However, his Lordfhip hap- 
pily recovered ; and, in the mean time, the flight of thefe poor 
prophets was Eu accounted for. | 
a. 
Motacilla Regulus—ibe golden-créwmed Wren. 
This bird, though the fmalleft of any except the humming- Sak 
and to appearance the moft delicate, is yet hardy enough to Ratan 
the cold of our fevereft winters; for it is now [danni 26th, 1776) 
the fevereft weather I ever remember, and yet it is chirping before 
me. | m J 
Before I conclude this article, I will beg leave to mention a few 
birds, found in my neighbourhood, which are rarely met with. - 
And I do this the more readily, as I am defirous of affording evi- 
dence of the fouthern fituations in which they have been taken. 
They are the Scolopax lapponica, the [mall Curlew, or red-breafted 
Godwit; the Tringa Glareola, or drown-/potted Sandpiper; the 
Ampelis garrulus, or Chatierer; and the Fringilla Montifringilla, or 
Brambling.. 
The Tringa Glareola has never been figured by any author. I 
made a drawing of it from a frefh fpetimen, with the following 
. defcription. 
ve sf 
- 
Tringa Glareola—the Brown-fhotied Sandpiper. 
The Wood Sandpiper. Latham’s Synopfs, vol. iii. p. 172, fp. 13. 
Tringa (Glareola) roftro levi, pedibus virefcentibus, corpore fufco - 
albo pundtato; peétore albido. Lin, Syf. Nat. vol. i. p. 250. 
Tringa 
