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clothes, fo that we were obliged to ftop an 

 hour every morning in examining our 

 clothes, before we could get rid of them. 



THE red ants (Formica rufaj which in 

 Sweden make the great ant-hills, I likewife 

 found to-day and the following day ; they 

 were not io the ground, for when my fer- 

 vant Tungjlroem 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 briflcly. 



February the I4th. THE Swedes and the 

 JLngliJfj gave the name of blue bird to a very 

 pretty little bird, which was of a fine blue 

 colour. Linnceus calls it Mot act It a Stalls. 

 Catejby has drawn it in his Natural biftory 

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

 by the name of Rubecula Americana carulea ; 

 and Edwards has reprefented it in his Natu- 

 ral hiftory of birds, plate and page 24. In, 

 my own journal I palled it Motacilla ccerulea 

 nitida, peclore rufo, venire albo. In Catejby 

 plate I muft obferve, that the colour of the 

 breaft ought to be dirty red or ferruginous; 

 the tibiae and feet black as jet ; the bill top 

 Should be quite black j the blue colour in 



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