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That strain again ; it had a dying fall ! 

 Oh it came o'er mine ear like the sweet south, 

 That breathes upon a bank of violets, 

 Stealing and giving odours. 



Twelfth Night. 



GREATER PETTYCHAPS. 



SYLVIA HORTENSIS; LATHAM. MOTACILLA HOR- 



TENSIS; LINNiEUS. LA FAUVETTE ; BUFFON. 



Sir Ashton Lever vras the first who noticed this 

 hu'd as a British species, and sent it to Dr Lath- 

 am. It is rather a rare bn*d even in England, and 

 still more so in Scotland. We first heard its war- 

 ble on Corstorphine-Hill, about two miles to the 

 westward of Edinburgh. We have since heard it 

 in Roslin woods. — We were not aware what bird it 

 was till we read Montagu and Bewick, and, from 



