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6. Scolopax nutans P Nodding Snipe ? Seen and killed in the winter-time, near Nazareth, in Pennsylvania. On 

 the authority of Mr. Oppelt. Mentioned by Mr. Pennant, as having been observed in Chateaux Bay, on the 

 coast of Labrador, in September. Arctic Zoology. Vol. II. P. 167. 



7. Charadrius Ilimantopus. Long-Legged Plover. On the authority of Mr. Oppelt. 

 3. Haematopus Ostralegus. Pied-Oyster-Catcher. 



PASSERES. 



9. Loxia ludoviciana. Red-Breasted Gross-Beak. 



10. Fringilla purpurea. Purple Finch. This is one of our birds of passage. Early in the spring, sometimes in 

 February, it comes up from the south, and returns from the north, going southward, in October. 



11. Fringilla . (Hemp-Bird.) This is one of our migratory birds. It is not the Fringilla cannabina of 



Linnajus ; but, like it, feeds on the ripe hemp-seed. Is often seen about Philadelphia. On the authority of Mr. 

 William Bartram, who thinks it an undescribed species. 



12. Ilirundo Subis. Canada Swallow, t Great American Martin. | On the authority of Mr. Oppelt, who ob- 

 served it in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem. Has never been seen about Philadelphia. Yet it is probable, 

 that it is a bird of passage. Perhaps, it passes from the north to the south, and returns to the north, through 

 the country west of the gi'eat ranges of our mountains, which is certainly the rout pursued by some of the migra- 

 tory birds that are seldom, or never, seen in the Atlantic parts of the United-States. Perhaps, this is no other 

 than the Tapera of Brasil, the Hirundo Tapera of Gmelin. 



13. Caprimulgus europaeus. European Goatsucker. (Night-Hawk.) In Maryland, if I mistake not, it is called 

 Bull-Bat. Pischk? of the Delaware-Indians. This, or a variety of it, is certainly a native of Penn.sylvania. 

 So that now all the fifteen species of this genus (mentioned by Gmelin) are known to be natives of America ; 

 and all, with the exception of the Caprimulgus europaeus, are, as far as is yet known, exclusively confined to 

 this portion of the world. This is an interesting fact, which does not favour the opinion of those writers who have 

 imagined, that all animals and all vegetables were originally created in the old world, from whence they have 

 been spread over every portion of the earth : an opinion which ought never to have been advanced by philo- 

 sophers ; and which it is not likely will prevail among those naturalists who observe with attention, and deliver 

 their sentiments without reserve or timidity. § 



t Latham. J Edwards. 



MeeNewViewsof the Origin of the I'ribus and Nations of America. Pages ci, cii, ciii, civ. Philadelphia: 1798. 



