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several other small birds, but cannot bring 

 them to any criterion. 



As I have often remarked that redwings 

 are some of the first birds that suffer with 

 us in severe weather, it is no wonder at all 

 that they re treat fromS'cr^?^^/^V^ai;^a/^Winters: 

 and much more the ordo of grallce, who all, 

 to a bird, forsake the northern parts of Eu- 

 rope at the approach of Winter. Grallm 

 ^' tanquam conjuratcB unanimiter infugam se 

 ** conjiciunt ; ne earum itnicam quidem inter 



nos hahitantem invenire possimus ; ut enim 

 *' (Estate in australibus degere nequeunt oh 



defectum lumbricorum, terramque siccam ; 



ita nec in frigidis ob eandem causam, sdiys 

 Ekmarck the Swede, in his ingenious little 

 treatise called Migrationes Avium, which 

 by all means you ought to read while your 

 thoughts run on the subject of migration. 

 See AmoBnitates Academicce, vol. iv. p. 565. 



Birds may be so circumstanced as to be 

 obliged to migrate in one country and not 

 in another : but the grallm (which pro- 

 cure their food from marshes and boggy 

 ground) must in Winter forsake the more 



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