16 Mr. Marxwicx’s Catalogue of ‘Birds 
No. 55.—The Brambling. Fringilla Montifringilla. 
This bird is fometimes driven hither (as I fuppofe) by the feve- 
rity of the winter in more northern countries. I have met with a 
few inftances of it in very hard winters. 
No. 57.—The Sitkin. #ringilla Spinus. 
The vilits of this bird to us in this neighbourhood feem to ‘be 
very irregular‘and uncertain. Some years ago, I faw it feveral 
times, in the month of April only, frequenting fome fir-trees near 
my houfe, as may be feen in my Table publithed in the Firft Vo- 
lume of the Linnean Tranfa€tions; but for thefe laft fourteen 
years I have never feen it once. 
No. 59.—The {potted Flycatcher. Mufcicapa Grifola. 
The chief food of this bird being flies, it does not make its ap- 
pearance here till late in the fpring,—never before May. A pair 
of thefe birds have conftantly built their neft, every year, in the 
fame hole of the-wall of my houfe, for a great number of years; 
which leaves ‘but little room to doubt, that the fame individual 
birds return every year to the fame place to build their neft. From 
whence do they come? Do they come from a far diftant country 
_ {lying perhaps on the other fide the equator), and repair annually 
to the fame identical {pot for the purpofe of incubation? or, Do 
they, at the proper feafon of the year, come out from their hiding- 
place near at hand, where they have pafled the winter in a torpid 
flate, fecure from the feverity of that feafon? 
No. 69.--The greater Pettychaps. Sylvia hortenfis. 
I have had two birds in my poffeffion, which, from their fize, I 
am perfuaded were of this fpecies: there was fome difference in 
their colour, onebeing of a more olivaceous green than the other 
and 
