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the world this bird is feen daring the winter? mud 

 it migrate to Senegal with thefwaliow? 



I am perfuaded like wife, that the cuckow never 

 migrates from this illand any more than the nightin- 

 gale : this bird is either probably torpid in the winter, 

 or otherwife is miftaken for one of the fmalier kind 

 of hawks * j which it would be iikewife in the fpring, 

 was it not for its very particular note at that time, 

 and which only lafts during courtfhip, as it does with 

 the quail. 



If there is fine weather in February, this bird 

 fometimes makes this fort of call to its mate, whilft 

 it is fuppofed to continue ftill on the continent. 



An inftance is mentioned by Mr. Bradley -f, of 

 not only a (ingle cuckow, but feveral, which were 

 heard in Lincolnfhire, during the month of Fe- 

 bruary ; and that able naturalift Mr. Pennant in- 

 forms me, another was heard near Hatcham in 

 Shropshire, on the 4th of February in the prefent 

 year J. 



obferved that the fong of the Ruffian nightingale differed from 

 that of the Englifh. 



* Mr. Hunter, F. R. S. informs me, that he hath feen 

 cuckows in the ifland of Belleifle during the winter, which is 

 not iituated fo much to the fouthward, as to make it impro- 

 bable that they may equally continue with us. 



f Works of Nature, p. 77. 



% Mr. Pennant received tnis account from Mr. Plimly, of 

 Longnor in Shropfhire. 



Thus Iikewife Mr. Edwards informs us, that the fea fowls near 

 the Needles, which are commonly fuppofed to migrate in 

 winter, appear upon the weather's being very mild. EfTays, 

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