72 February 1749. 



fweet. Their note very nearly refembies 

 that of our European nightingale, and on 

 account of their agreeable forg, they are fent 

 abundantly to London, in cages. They have 

 fuch ftrength in their bill that when you 

 hold your hand to them they pinch it fo 

 hard as to caufe the blood to iffue forth. 

 In fpring they fit warbling on the tops of 

 the higheft trees in the woods, in the morn- 

 ing. But in cages they fit quite ftill for 

 an hour .; the next hour they hop up and 

 down, finging ; and fo they go on alter- 

 nately all day. 



February the 17th. Cranes f Ardea 

 Canadenfis) were ibmetimes Cctn flying in 

 the day-time, to the northward. They 

 commonly Hop here early in fpring, for a 

 fhort time, but they do not make their nefls 

 here, for they proceed on more to the 

 north. Certain old Swedes told me, that 

 in their younger years, as the country was 

 not yet much cultivated, an incredible 

 number of cranes w T ere here every fpring $ 

 but at prefent they are not fo numerous. 

 Several people who have fettled here, eat 

 their rlelh, when they can moot them. 

 They are laid to do no harm to corn, or the 

 like. 



February the 23d. This morning I 



went 



