88 March 1749. 



round the tree. Therefore the apple-trees in 

 the orchards here have feveral rings round 

 their flems, which lie very clofe above each 

 other, frequently only an inch diftant from 

 each other. Sometimes thefe wood-pec- 

 kers peck the holes fo clofe, that the tree 

 dries up. This bird, as Cate/by remarks, 

 is fo like the lefler fpotted wood-pecker, 

 in regard to its colour and other qualities, 

 that they would be taken for the fame bird, 

 were not the former (the Picus pubefcensj 

 a great deal lefs. They agree in the bad 

 quality, which they both poflefs, of peck- 

 ing holes into the apple-trees. 



Rana ocellata are a kind of frogs here, 

 which the Swedes call, Sill-hoppet offer, i. e. 

 Herring- hoppers, and which now began to 

 quack in the evening, and at night, in 

 fwamps, pools, and ponds. The name 

 which the Swedes give them is derived from 

 their beginning to make their noife in Ipring, 

 at the fame time when the people here go 

 catching what are called herrings, which 

 however differ greatly from the true Euro- 

 pean herrings. Thelb frogs have a pecu- 

 liar note, which is not like that of our Eu- 

 ropean frogs, but rather correfponds with 

 the chirping of fome large birds, and can 

 nearly be exprefled by flee /. With this 

 jioife they continued throughout a great 



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