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iides throughout the year. I am at a lofs for the 

 fummer retreat of thofe which vifit us in fuch num- 

 bers in winter, and quit our country in the fpring. 

 And for the reafon why a bird, whofe food is fuch 

 that it may be found at all feafons in this country, 

 fhould leave us. 



Difappears early in autumn; the retreat of this Cuckoo. 

 and the following bird is quite unknown to us. 



Is a bird that leaves us in the winter. If its diet Wryneck. 

 be ants alone, as feveral afTert, the caufe of its mi- 

 gration is very evident. This bird difappears be- 

 fore winter, and revifits us in the fpring a little 

 earlier than the Cuckoo. 



Continue with us the whole year; their food be- Woodpecs- 

 ing the larva of infects, which lodge themfelves at ERS ' 

 all times in the bark of trees. 



Continues here through all feafons. King- 



fisher. 



Refides in this country the whole year. Nuthatch. 



Comes to England but by accident : we once in- Hoopoe. 

 deed heard of a pair that attempted to make their 

 nefl in a meadow at Selborne, Hampjhire y but were 

 frighted away by the curiofity of people. It breeds 

 in Germany. 



Never leaves the country. Creeper. 



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