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Gun alarmed them every time I shot when they both 

 uttered a Plaintive Cry — 



through pain of the Wound or the heat felt in My 

 hat one died before We reach'^ M"" Perrie's house — 

 the other I put in a Cage, — he imediatly review*^ the 

 premises hoping about and hunting for a place to 

 Work through, and used his chisel bill with great 

 adroitness finding the Small Chips he cut to the right 

 & left and having made his way to the floor, run to 

 the Wall and Climb'* up it as easily as if the back of 

 his favorite Pine [bark] — had been his post hold, 

 picking between the Bricks and Swallowing every In- 

 sect he found — remarking often his looking under 

 Craks and the litle Shelves in the rough wall, I drew 

 him in that position — Sorry I am to have to say that 

 M'^ Willson's Drawing could not have been Made 

 from the Bird fresh Killed or if so it was in very bad 

 order about the head; he having put the Small striek 

 of red feathers of the head imediatly over the Eye 

 While there is a White Line, the red being placed far 

 back of the [h]ear — and the whole of the wing not at 

 all Marked Like that of the Bird — the sides of the 

 breast is also badly represented, the Lines in Nature 

 are Longitudinal only, and Show more of a body — 

 the appearance of this Bird when on the pine trees 

 Would Make one suppose it to be Black all over and 

 the Red Line is often covered by the Crown feathers 

 in the living Bird — I first Met with this Species a few 



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