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of a linnet, with yellow wings, and beautiful in 

 other colors. 



Throstle, the same size and feather as in Eu- 

 rope, but I never could hear any of them sing. 



The weet, so called because he cries always be- 

 fore rain ; he resembles nearest the iiretail. 



Cranes use the savannas, low ground and frogs. 

 They are above five feet high, w^hen extended; 

 are of a cream color, and have a crimson spot on 

 the crown of their heads. Their quills are excel- 

 lent for pens ; their flesh makes the best broth, 

 yet is very hard to digest. Among them often 

 frequent storks, which are here seen, and no where 

 besides in America, that I have yet heard of. The 

 cranes are easily bred up tame, and are excellent 

 in a garden to destroy frogs, w^orms, and other 

 vermine. 



The snow birds are most numerous in the north 

 parts of America, where there are great snows. 

 They visit us sometimes in Carolina, when the 

 weather is harder than ordinary. They are like 

 the stones smach, or wheat ears, and are delicate 

 meat. 



These yellow wings are a very small bird, of a 

 linnets color, but wings as yellow as gold. They 

 frequent high up in our rivers and creeks, and 

 keep themselves in the thick bushes, very difficult 

 to be seen in the spring. They sing very prettily, 



Whippowill, so named because it makes those 

 words exactly. They are the bigness of a thrush, 

 and call their note under a bush, on the ground, 



