JO February 1749. 



clothes, fo that we were obliged to ftop an 

 hour every morning in examining our 

 clothes, before we could get rid of them. 



The red ants {Formica rufa) which in 



Sweden make the ^reat ant-hills, I likewife 



"ind to-day and the following day ; they 



e not in the ground, for when my fcr- 



..ijt Tungftroem cut down old dry trees, he 



met with a number of them in the cracks of 



the tree. Thefe cracks were at the height 



of many yards in the tree, and the ants 



were crept fo high, in order to find their 



winter habitation : As foon as they came 



into a warm place, they began to ftir about 



very brifkly. 



February the 14th. The Swedes and the 

 Fnglijlj gave the name of blue bird to a very 

 pretty little bird, which was of a fine blue 

 colour. Lirmceus calls it Motacilla Sialis. 

 Catejby has drawn it in his Natural hi/fory 

 of Carolina, vol. I. pi. 47, and defcribed it 

 by the name of Rube 'cut 'a Americana carulea\ 

 and Edwards has reprefented it in his Natu- 

 ral hiflory of birds, plate and page 24. In 

 my own journal I called it Motacilla ccerulea 

 nitida s peclore nfo, ventre albo. In Catejby s 

 plate I mu ft obferve, that the colour of the 

 bread ought to be dirty red or ferruginous; 

 the tibiae and feet black as jet ; the bill too 

 fhould be quite black j the blue colour in 



general 



