COMVAIT OT EuR ER. 
plenty in the zortern parts of the ifland, vifiting annually the 
neighbourhood of Edinburgh during winter; and feeds on the 
berries of the mountain afb; difappearing in fpring*. They have 
alfo been killed in Northumberland and York/bire frequently, as 
well as now and then as far fouth as our metropolis +, and are not 
unfrequently met with both in Fyance and ftaly. From our little 
knowledge of the mative place of thefe birds, little can be faid of 
the neft, further than that it is faid to make it in the holes of 
rocks t{. The general food is derries of all kinds, and in the feafon 
grapes, of which they are faid tobe fond. In countries where they 
are plenty, are efteemed good food. 
Ampelis Garrulus, Ezz. Sy/?. i. pe 299. 1. 
Le Jafeur de la Caroline, Bri/. orn. ii. p. sth 64.—Bauf. vif. lie p. 4416 
Caquautototl, Razi Syz. p. 174. 
Chatterer of Carolina, Edw. pl. 242.—Catefb. Car. i. pl. 46.—Ar&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf, 
HiIS is lefs than the European fpecies, and is much like it, 
but the belly is of a pale yellow inftead of red: both 
fexes have the wings of a plain colour. 
The female has no appendages at the ends of the fecond quills ; 
and the plumagetis lefs lively than in the male. 
This fpecies is found in America, from the more northern parts 
to Carolina and Mexico; but authors do not inform us of the 
* Br. Zool. Flor. Scot. 
+ Phil. tranf.—One of thefe was fhot at Eltham, in the winter 1781, and is 
now in my colleétion. 
t In Qartary. Frifch, 
|| And that it frequents the mountains Cemmandes). Buffon alfo has met with 
one pacts came from Cayenze, 
5 manners 
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