72 February 1749. 



fweet. Their note very nearly refembles 

 that of our European nightingale, and on 

 account of their agreeable fong, they are fent 

 abundantly to Londcn, in cages. They have 

 fuch ftrength in their bill that when you 

 hold your hand to them they pinch it fb 

 hard as to caufe the blood to ifTue forth. 

 In fpring they lit 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 j and fo they go on alter- 

 nately all day. 



February the I7th. CRANES ( ' Ardea 

 Ganadenjis) were Ibmetimes feen fiviL^ in 

 the day-time, to the northward. Th~y 

 commonly flop here early in Ipring, for a 

 fhort time, but they do not make their nefts 

 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 were here every fpring; 

 but at prefent they are not fo numerous. 

 Several people who have fettled here, eat 

 their flefh, when they can moot them. 

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

 like. 



February the 23d. THIS morning I 



went 



