102 Of the fascinating FACULTY 



Many fpecies, again, are content with the ground, lay- 

 ing their eggs, and hatching them, in the cavity of a 

 ftone, an excavation from the earth, among the grafs of 

 fields and meadows, or in fields of wheat, rye, and other 

 grains. Thus, to confine myfelf to our own country, 

 the eagle, the vulture, the hawk, and other birds of this 

 extenfive family, make choice of the loftieft oaks, and 

 other trees of our forefts ; the baltimore-oriole*, com- 

 monly called, in Pennfylvania, the hanging-bird, fuf- 

 pends a beautiful nefl: to the extremity of a branch of the 

 Liriodendron-f, or fome other tree ; the migrating thrufh|, 

 called robin, is content with the lower branches; the 

 red thrufli II , the cat-bird §, the red- winged oriole, called 

 the fw amp-black-bird ^, and many others build in the 

 low bu flies ; the wood-peckers**, the blue motacilla 

 (blue-bird) -ff, the torchepot |+, and others, build in the 

 hollows of trees, the chattering plover ||||, and the whip- 

 poor-will §§, take advantage of a hollow place in the 

 ground, or in a ftone, whilft the great larkf^, the 

 marfh-wrcn***, &c. place their nefts in the grais ; and, 

 laftly, the partridge -f-f-f builds in the corn-fields. 



Of all thefe birds, and of a great many others, thofe 

 which build their nefts upon the ground, on the lower 

 branches of trees, and on low bufhes (efpecially on the 

 fides of rivers, creeks, and other waters, that are fre- 

 quented by difiPcrent kinds of ferpents), have moft fre- 

 quently been obferved to be under the enchanting faculty 

 of the rattle-fnake, &c. Indeed, the bewitching fpirit 

 of thefe ferpents feems to be almoft entirely Umited to 



* Oriolus Baltimore. ■)■ Liiiodendron tulipifera. 



,% Turdus migratorius. || Turdus rufus. 



<} Mufcicapa carolinenfis. ^ Oriolus phoeniceus. 



** Pici. ff Motacilla Sialis. 



±X Sitta. II II Charadrius vociferus- 



V$ Caprimulgus. ^«[[ Alauda magna. 



^** Motacilla Troglodytes ? -fft Tetrao virginianus. 



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