382 



SPARROW. 



multitudes are thus taken. Thofe which efcape, continue their route 

 to Flanders, France, and Italy. The males continue in Sweden, and 

 enliven its rigorous winter with their' chearful twitter. Towards 

 fpringj they receive additional fpirits ; perch on every tree, and ani- 

 mate with their notes every fpray, expefting the arrival of fpring, 

 ■and of their mates. The laft return invariably the beginning of 

 April, in fuch numbers as almoft to darken th-e flcies j join their 

 conforts, perform their nuptials, retire to the woods, increafe and 

 multiply *. 



France has its refident Chaffinches, as well as England: many alfo 

 winter lin Italy : many come there in Jpr'il, and migrate in OElober t ; 

 .perhaps into Minorca, where it arriyes in O£loker, and continues in 

 that ifland the whole winter J. 



Place, 



Q. SjPARE.o,w, Br.Zool.i. N" 127.-— Lfl«/>«». il. 24!. 

 fatting. Grafparf, Faun. Suec. N° 242. | 

 Le Moineau, De Buffon, iii. 474.—/'/. Enl. 6. i. 55. I. 



INHABITS Europe in plenty as high as Drontheim §: infefls the 

 corn, in the Orkfiies, by thoufands : is native among the rocks be- 

 yond lake Baikal; but it is faid, that they were unknown in the 

 greateft part of Sibiria before the Ruffians attrafted them by the cul- 

 itivation of corn. By a wonderful inftindl, thefe apd many other birds 

 difcover the effedts of rural ceconomy, which draws various fpecies, 

 unknown before, from diftant parts, to fhare with mankind the fe- 

 yeral forts of grain or feeds which are grateful to them. Partridges 

 keep pace with the fpreading of corn oyer many parts of the earth, 

 and appear where they were never feen before : and Rice-birds 

 quickly difcovered the cultivation of rice in South Carolinaj and 

 .come annually fome hundreds of miles to feed on it. 



• jlman. -Acad. iv. 595. 

 I JQleghorn, 56. 



■}• M, Seopoli, MS. Lift, & Jv. 14*. 

 § Aves Nidr, Enum. MS, 



Goldfinch* 



