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round the tree. Therefore the apple-trees in 

 the orchards here have feveral rings round 

 their items, which lie very clofe above each 

 other, frequently only an inch diftant from 

 each other. Sometimes thefe wood-pec- 

 kers peck the holes fo clofe, that the tree 

 dries up. This bird, as Catejby remarks, 

 is fo like the leffer fpotted wood-pecker, 

 in regard to its colour and other qualities, 

 that they would be taken for the fame bird, 

 were not the former (the Picus puhefcensj 

 a great deal lefs. They agree in the bad 

 quality, which they both poilefs, of peck- 

 ing holes into the apple-trees. 



Rana ocellata are a kind of frogs here, 

 which the Swedes call, Sill-hop pet offer, i. e. 

 Herring- hoppers, and which now began to 

 <quack in the evening, and at night, in 

 fwamps, pools, and ponds. The name 

 which the Swedes give them is derived from 

 their beginning to make their noife in fpring, 

 •at the fame time when the people here go 

 catching what are called herrings, which 

 however differ greatly from the true Euro- 

 pen?! herrings. Thefe frogs liave a pecu- 

 liar note, which is not like that of our Eu- 

 ropean frogs, but rather cprrefponds with 

 the chirping of fome large birds, and can 

 nearly be exprefled by pi cet. With this 

 aoife they continued throughout a great 



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