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fpriiîg, whik the fnow is yet on the ground. 

 On ftridly examining this bird, I found it to 

 be the great Pied-Mountain Finch, or Bram- 

 biing, defcribed in Willoughby's Ornithology, 

 page 255. Bcfides this, I have received from 

 North- America the Red-Legg'd Horfeman, or 

 Totano, defcribed in Willoughby, page 299. 

 the Bald Coot, defcribed page 319. and the 

 Crofs-Bill, or Loxia, defcribed page 248. of 

 the fame author. Thefe are all birds found in 

 Europe, as weii as in America ; two of them, 

 viz. the Crofs Bill, and the Pied-Mountain 

 Finch, are fmall land birds. I have alfb re- 

 ceived from America the little bird we call the 

 Golden-Crowned Wren. There are many of 

 the water fowls, that frequent the northern 

 parts of the world, found both in Europe and 

 America ; the White Partridge, or Lagopus Avis^ 

 is found in North-America as well as in Europe. 

 Mr. Catelby, in his Hiftory of Carolina, &c. has 

 particularized many birds that he obferved to 

 be inhabitants both of America and Europe. I 

 do not wonder to find that bird,?, v/ho breed on 

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