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I muft alfo aflt, in what other part of the world this bird is feen 

 during the winter: muft it migrate to Senegal with the (wal- 

 low ? , 



I am perfuaded likewife, that the cuckow never leaves this 

 ifland any more than the nightingale : this bird is either pro- 

 bably torpid ill the winter, or otherwife is miftaken for one of 

 the fmaller kind of hawks x ; which it would be likewife in the 

 fpring, was it not for its very particular note at that time, and 

 which only lafts during courtfhip, as it does with the quail. 



If there is fine weather in February, this bird fometimes makes 

 this fort of call to its mate, whilft it is fuppofed to continue ftili 

 on the continent. 



An inftance is mentioned by Mr. Bradly of not only a fingle 

 cuckow, but feverai, which were heard in Lincolnfhire during 

 the month of February ; and that able naturalift Mr. Pennant in- 

 forms me, another was heard near Hatcham in Shropfhire, on the 

 4th of February z . I have received a fimilar account from 

 Welfhpool, in Montgomeryshire, but of the laft week of the 

 fame month, 1779, as alfo from Argylefhire. 



I have before mentioned, that Mr. Fletcher, who was embarTador- 

 from England to Ruffia in the time of Queen Elizabeth, obferved that 

 the fong of the Ruffian nightingale differed from that of the Englilh. 



* Mr. Hunter, F. R. S. informs me, that he hath feen cuckows in the 

 iiland of Belleifle during the winter, which is not lituated fo much to 

 the Southward, as to make it improbable that they may equally continue 

 with us. 



y Works of Nature, p. 77. 



z Mr. Pennant received this account from Mr. Plimly, of Longnor in 

 Shropftiire ; and Amis the Poulterer in Bond-ftreet hath told me that he 

 hath procured cuckows during the winter. See likewife Willughby, 

 art. Cuckow. 



Thus likewife Mr. Edwards informs us, that the fea fowls near the 

 Needles, which are commonly fuppofed to migrate in winter, appear 

 upon the weather's being very mild. Efiays, p. 197. 



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