Class II. G O A T - S U C K E R. 417 



July^ the period of that infed's * flight in this 

 countrf. 



This bird makes but a (hort (lay with us : ap- Migrates, 

 pears the latter end of May ^ and difappears in the 

 northern parts of ourifland the latter end o^ Auguft^ 

 but in the fouthern flays above a month later. 

 It inhabits all parts of Great Britain^ from Corn- 

 wal to the county of Rofs, Mr. ScopoU feems to 

 credit the report of their fucking the teats of goats, 

 an error delivered down from the days of Ariftotle, 



Its notes are mod fingular : the loudeft fo much NerEs. 

 refembles that of a large fpinning wheel, that the 

 Weljb call this bird aderyn y droell^ or the wheel 

 bird. It begins its fong mod punctually on the 

 clofe of day, fitting ufually on a bare bough with 

 the head lower than the tail, as exprefled in the 

 upper figure in the plate; the lower jaw quivering 

 with the efforts. The noife is fo very violent, as 

 to give a fenfible vibration to any little building it 

 chances to ali.ght on, and emit this fpecies of note. 

 The other is a Iharp fqueak, which it repeats 

 often , this feems a note of love, as it is obferved 

 to reiterate it when in purfuit of the female among 

 the trees. 



It lays its eggs on the bare ground; ufually Eggs, 

 two : they are of a long form, of a whitifh hue, 

 prettily marbled with reddifh brown. 



* Scarabaus Mdolontha, 



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