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fertcd to me by many Eye-witnefles of Cre^ 

 dit, that to me it was without doubt, the 

 Relaters being very fober Perfons, and all a* 

 greeing in a Story : nothing of the like ever 

 l^appen'd lince, nor did I ever fee paft Ten 

 in a Flock together that I remember. I am 

 not fond of fiichStories^and had fupprefled the 

 relating of it, but that I bav§ heard the 

 lame from very many. 



The Thrufli and Feldefire are much like 

 ours, and are only feen in Winter there, ac- 

 cordingly as they are here. 



Their Mocking Birds may be compared to 

 our Singing Thrufties, being much of the 

 fame bignefs j there are two forts, the Gray 

 and the Red, the gray has Feathers much of 

 the colour of our gray Plovers with whit^ 

 |n the Wings like a Magpye \ this has the 

 much fofter Note, and will imitate, in its 

 finging, the Notes of all Birds that it hears, 

 and is accounted much the fineft Singing Bird 

 in the World. Dr. Moulin and I made in 

 pur Anatomy many Obfervations of Singing 

 Birds to this efFeft : The Ears of Birds dif- 

 fer much from thofe of Men or Beafts, there's 

 almoft a direft pafTage from one Ear to the 

 other of Birds, fo that prick but the fmall 

 Membrane calFd the Drum on either Ear, 

 and Water poured in at one Ear will run out 

 ^t the other : But this is not all, but what 

 is much more remarkable, they have no Co-- 

 clea, but inftead thereof there's a fmall Co- 

 cleous or twifting Paflage that opens into a 

 large Cavity, that runs betwixt two Sculls, 

 and pafles all round the Head, the upper 

 ppu^l is fupported by many hundreds of fmall 



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