OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Liji of Summer Birds cf Pajfage. 



Mofl: foft-billed birds feed upon infedls, and not on grain 

 or feeds ; and, therefore, they retire before winter. But 

 the following foft-billed birds, though they eat infefls, remain 

 with us during the whole year ; fuch as the red-breaft and 

 wren, who frequent out-houfes and gardens during the win- 

 ter, and eat fpiders, &c. •, the hedge-fparrow, who frequents 

 finks for crumbs and other fweepings ; the white wagtail, 

 the yellow-wagtail, and the gray wagtail, who frequent (hal- 

 low rivulets near the fpring heads, where the water feldom 



