Peregrine Tfrtcon 



LETTER LVII. 



To the same. 



RARE, and I think a new, little bird fre- 

 quents my garden, which I have great reason 

 to think is the pettichaps : it is common in 

 some parts of the kingdom ; and I have 

 received formerly several dead specimens 

 from Gibraltar. This bird much resembles 

 the white-throat, but has a more white or 

 rather silvery breast and belly; is restless and active, like 

 the willow-wrens, and hops from bough to bough, examining 

 every part for food ; it also runs up the stems of the crown- 

 imperials, and, putting its head into the bells of those flowers, 

 sips the liquor which stands in the nectarium of each petal. 

 Sometimes it feeds on the ground like the hedge-sparrow, by 

 hopping about on the grass-plots and mown walks. 



