Peregrine T^aLcon 



LETTER LVII. 



1*0 the same. 



RARE, and I think a new, little bird frequents 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. Some- 

 times it feeds on the ground like the hedge-sparrow, by hopping 

 about on the grass-plots and mown walks. 



