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reason to suppose they are, because they 

 are never seen in winter) how could they, 

 feeble as they seem, bear up against such 

 storms of snow and rain, and make their 

 way through such meteorous turbulences, 

 as one should suppose would embarrass 

 and retard the most hardy and resolute of 

 the winged nation ? Yet they keep their 

 appointed times and seasons ; and in spite 

 of frost and winds return to their stations 

 periodically, as if they had met with no- 

 thing to obstruct them. The withdrawing 

 and appearance of the short-winged Sum- 

 mer birds is a very puzzling circumstance 

 in natural history ! 



When the boys bring me wasps' nests, 

 my bantom fowls fare deliciously, and 

 when the combs are pulled to pieces, de- 

 vour the young wasps in their maggot state 

 with the highest glee and delight. Any 

 insect-eating bird would do the same ; and 

 therefore I have often wondered that the 

 accurate Mr. Ray should call one species of 

 buzzard huteo apivorus sive vespivorus, or 

 the hone^ buzzard, because some combs of 



