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ever, (whose name I do not recollect) wrote a little paper to prove, that these birds continue with us all the 

 winter : why ? because one of them was one frosty day, in the month of October, found a good deal benumbed in a 

 churcli, in some part of New-England; I think in Connecticut. 



* Turdus Trichas. This bird is must iiiiprciporly arranged by Liimajus under his genus of Turdus. 



* Picas erythrocephalus. This is the Me-ma-!;uch-ctis of the Delaware-Indians. See Srctiuii III. P. 1 1. 



* Motacilla aurocapilla. This is very properly considered as a species of Turdus, or Thrush, b.ith by Edward.s and 

 by Pennant. It is the Turdus minimus, vertice aurio, of Bartram. Traivh. 



* Tanagra rubra. This and the Summer-Red-Bird of Catesby (Vol. I. P. 56.) both belong to the same genus, 

 Their note and their manners are the same. They both eat the same food, viz. fruit and insects. 



* Muscicapa olivacea. I do not tliink, with Mr. Pennant, f that this is the same bird as the Whip-Tom-Kelly of the 

 West-Indies. Our bird has no such note ; but a great variety of soft, tender, and agreeable notes. It inhabits 

 forests, and does not, like the West-India bird, build a " pendulous nest.'' 



* Muscicapa Ruticilla. Ruticilla araericana of Bartram. Traveh. 



* Turdus minor. Turdus melodcs of Bartram. Traveh. This is, perhaps, the most musical of all the birds of 

 the United-States, notwithstanding the assertions of Catesby and other writers to the contrary. 



* Muscicapa viridis. This is a bird of very singular form, manners, and language. I am not satisfied as to its ge- 

 nus. It seems to be allied to the Manakin of Edwards and Brisson. 



* Falco sparverius. In the month of Mnn-Ii, it buiMs its nest in hollow trees, and feeds its young with mice, frng^, 

 and small birds. 



* Tanagra cyanea. This is sometimes called in Peunsyhania, Indig.i-Bird. It is the Linaria cyanea of Bartram. 

 Travels. 



* Cueulus americanus. Cuculus Carolinensis of Bartram. Travels. This bird is better tigured by l?uffon (P/. 

 E}ilH?n.) than by Catesby. 



* Alauda magna. See Section III. P. ii. 



* Tringa macularia (G). Tringa maculata of Bartram. Travels. 



* Motacilla ohiysoptera. Parus alls aureis of Bartram. Travels. 



* MotaciUa petechia. Mr. Pennant is mistaken in saying that this pretty species does not breed iu Pennsylvania. 



* Muscicapa rapax of Bartram. I take this to be the Lesser Crested Fly-Catcher of Mr. Pennant : the Muscicapa 

 acadica of Gmelin. It is a ver3' useful little bird, destroying numbers of the common house-fly and other trou- 

 blesome insects. It continues with us until late in .September, when it retires southerly to pass the winter. 



* Ardea cinerea. 



* Eallus virginianus. This is the bird which is so well known in Pennsylvania by the name of Rail. It is a ques- 

 tion much disputed among our sportsmen, whether this be a bird of passage, or whether it continues among us. 

 I have no doubt, that it is a bird of passage. It is well known in Carolina and Florida, where it commonly con- 

 tinues late, devoming the seed of the Zizania, Rice, and other aquatic plants. Whether it hiemates in these 

 countries, or goes still farther to the south, I do not know. 



* Ardea parva of Bartram. I cannot find that this species is described. It builds its nest in the grass of meadows. 

 It is the smallest species of the genus that is known to me. 



* Alauda Calandra. This is the CalanJra pratensis of Bartram. Travels. The Calandra floralia of the same 

 gentleman. 



t Arctic Zoology. V. II. P. 79- 



