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suffer tlieuisclves to be taken off the trees by 

 hand. These, I presume, are the swans,^ and 

 pheasants, said b}' Mr. Ellis to be found in Hud- 

 son's Bav. He saw the ruins of three French 

 settlements, and found several beaver-houses; but 

 the place was so nnich frequented by India^is, that 

 the crews <if beavers were all broken ones. One 

 of the Indians drcAv him a chart of that bay, upon 

 birch rind; it is very large, and contains several 

 rivers, islands and smaller bays. 



Tiicsdai/, June 29, 1779. I shot a loon, took a 

 (hu'k's nest, by the pond near the fiagstatf and 

 found a robin's nest. These birds are somewhat 

 l)igger than a thrush, are like that bird in shape, 

 but of a more beautiful plumage. They build the 

 same sort of nest, but their note is like the black- 

 ]»ird's;2 their eggs also, of which they seldom lay 

 more than three, are very like those of the black- 

 bird's. 



Wednes., Junr 30, 1779. I weighed some eggs 

 to-day, and found those of the saddleback gull 

 to be four ounces fifteen penm^veights; eider- 

 ducks, from three ounces six pennyweights to 

 four ounces; and ]^igeons two oiuices five penny- 

 weights: T also weighed some eider down, and 

 found, tliat thirty-seven of the little tufts weighed 

 one grain. 



• Thn whlfltlinK Hwan, Olm columlrianns, broo<lH on (ho iHlandfl on (ho 

 eaatom sido of Hudson Ray. 



* The Englixh hhu-khinl Is a (hnish. Turrluf, mrrula, and is rola(<vl 

 to tho Amorioan rf)hin. Roth (ho EiikI'-^Ii thrush and tlio Amorioan rohiti 

 uso mud in the? ronstruotidn of 1h<'ir nosts. In more favourable roKioius 

 further Houth the robin often lays four or five cggH. 



