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hually and.feed on the berries of the mountain afh: they alfo appear as 
‘far fouth as Northumberland and York/bire frequently, and like the 
fieldfare make the berries of the white-thorn their food *. They have 
alfo been met with feveral times near London +. They difappear in 
fpring {. In France and Italy they are not unfrequent. 
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The nefts of thofe birds are faid to be conftructed in the holes of 
rocks §, but as we can fcarcely determine even their native country, 
we need not expect any fatisfactory information relative to its eggs — 
and neft, until fome future traveller thal] be fo fortunate as to difcover 
them. 
The general food is berries of all kinds, efpecially grapes ; in 
countries where they are plenty they are efteemed good food. 
It is faid that the females want the red appendages at the end of the 
fecond quills ||, as weil as the yellow marks on the back **, 
A variety of this bird is alfo found in America from Carolina to 
Mexico, it is the AMpetis Garrutus of Linnaeus, Le jafeur de la 
Caroline, of Briffon and Buffon; Caquautototl, Raii; and Chatterer 
of Carolina, ot Edwards, Catefoy, &c. 
This bird is lefs than the European kind, is much like it, except 
that the belly is of a pale yellow initead of reddith ; both fexes have 
* Pennant Br. Zool 11. 314. 
+ One was fhot at Eltham, in the winter 1781, and was in the colletion of Mr, 
T. Latham, of Dartford. 
{ Br. Zool.—Flor. Scot. § In Tartdry. Frifch. 
| This is probable, fince it is certainly fo in the American fpecies. But thefe birds 
vary mucn in this characteriftic ; for I have obferved fo few as five in fome fpecimens; 
and Buffin mentions having feen a bird with feven on one wing, and five on the other, 
‘as well as others with three only.’ Latham. i ' 
#* © This is not clear to me, The American {pecies has no yellow on the wings in 
either fex, I have never met with one of thefe without,” _ Latham, 
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