7<3 February 1749. 



clothes, fo that we were obliged to flop an 

 hour every morning in examining our 

 clothes, before we could get rid of them. 



The red ants (Formica rufa) which in 

 Sweden make the great ant-hills, I likewife 

 found to-day and the following day ; they 

 were not in the ground, for when my fer- 

 vant Tungfroem cut down old dry trees, he 

 met with a number of them in the cracks of 

 the tree. Thefe cracks were at the height 

 of many yards in the tree, and the ants 

 were crept fo high, in order to find their 

 winter habitation : As foon as they came 

 into a warm place, they began to ftir about 

 very brifkly. 



February the 14th. The Swedes and the 

 Fnglifo gave the name of blue bird to a very 

 pretty little bird, which was of a fine blue 

 colour. "Linnaus calls it Motacilla Stalls. 

 Catefoy has drawn it in his Natural hiflory 

 ef Carolina, vol.1, pi. 47, and defcribed it 

 by the name of Rubecula Americana ccerulea-, 

 and Edwards has reprefented it in his Natu- 

 ral bijlory of birds > plate and page 24. In 

 my own journal I called it Motacilla carulea 

 nitida t -peffiore rufo, ventre albo. In Catejby's 

 plate I mud obferve, that the colour of the 

 bread ought to be dirty red or ferruginous; 

 the tibia? and feet black as jet j the bill too 

 fhould be quite black ; the blue colour in 



general 



