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OBSERVATIONS. 



and also the fine train belonging to that bird. See also 

 Montagu's Ornitholog. Diet. Art. Pheasant. 



P. 251. The squirrel's nest is not only called a drey 

 in Hampshire^ but also in other counties ; in Suffolk it 

 is called a bay. The word ^ drey,' though now provin- 

 cial, I have met with in some of our old writers. 



P. SOS. It will hardly be deemed a discredit to an 

 observer so patient, so accurate, and so faithful, as Mr. 

 White, to mention, that his conjecture concerning the 

 origin of honey-dew is erroneous ; the subject has been 

 elucidated by the observations of Mr. WiUiam Curtis, 

 who has discovered it to be the " excrement of the 

 aphides." See Transact, of the Linnsean Society, 

 vol. vi. No. 4. 



J. M. 



Benhall, Suffolk, 

 20th January, 1812. 



