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No. 44.—The Chatterer. Ampelis Garrulus. 
This rare bird fometimes makes its appearance here in hard 
winters: I have met with two inftances of it. 
No, 45.—The Crofs-bill. Loxia Curvirofira. 
I have known two or three inftances of this bird being killed in 
the neighbourhood. A male bird of this fpecies was fent me by 
a friend on the 15th of January 1795. 
No. 46.—The Hawfinch. Loxia Coccothrau/ftes. 
Two inftances of this bird’s being met with here, in hard winters, 
haye fallen within my obfervation. 
No. 54.—The Chaffinch. Fringilla celebs. 
Mr. White, in his Natural Hiftory of Selborne, afferts, that 
only the hen Chaffinches are to be feen in winter at that place; or,. 
at moft, but very few cocks among them. Such a circumftance 
(which confirms Linnzus’s account of the migration of the female 
Chaffinches only) happening fo near to this place as the very next 
county, has induced me to take particular notice of thefe birds,. 
efpecially in the winter. Not long fince, as I was riding, I obferved 
a number of Chaffinches in the hedges on each fide of the road, 
and, as far as I could diftinguifh, moft of them appeared to be 
cocks. I now began to think that I had difcovered fome traces of 
this partial migration, and that the hens were gone, and had left 
their mates behind them: but my fubfequent obfervations have not 
tended to confirm this idea; for, fince that time, I have feen at 
leaft as many hens as. cocks ; particularly on the 22d of this month, 
' January 1795, nineteen of thefe birds were killed and brought to 
me. On examination, there proved to be ten females and nine 
males; fo that I muft revert back to my original opinion, that no 
fuch partial migration of one fex only takes place here. 
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