yjz TRAVELS through 



The Bljliop is blue mixed with purple and of 

 the fizc of a linnet *. 



The gold-finch is quite yellow, with the tips 

 of the wings i^lack -j-. 



There is a bird they call the Harlequin^ be- 

 caufe it is varied with many colours, and an- 

 other called the S'wifs^ becaufe it is red and blue ; 

 the laft three fpecies only come to the Illinois in 

 fummer. 



The humming bird is no bigger than a large 

 beetle, and painted with many bright and chang- 

 ing colours •, it lives upon the fweet juice of 

 flowers as bees do; its neft is made of a very 

 fine cotton or woolly fubflance, and fuipended 

 on the branch of a tree J. There are number- 

 lefs unknown birds, which would make the ac- 

 count too Ions:. 



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I have feen butterflies of great beauty *, I 

 found two on my voyages (that have been eaten 



up 



-• Bifliop, Tanagra Epifcopus Linn. 



f Goldfinch, Fringilla trijiis, Linn. 



X Humming bird, Trcchilus Coluhris, Linn. 



