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Mr. Johnfon to Mr. Ray. 



BrignaU, near Great Bridge, March 29. 



Honoured SIR, 



YO U have the Head of a Field- fare almoft whitc^ 

 the reit of the Body was not at all altered $ 

 whether it he Jufus nature old Age, or fome acci- 

 dental Caufe, I know not. I have only obferved 

 this Change from proper Colours to white in Larks 

 which are about Car life, to be very ufual in 7itlarks T 

 which I have feen on our Moores : In Crows, where- 

 of rh ere is one juft now in Cliffe-Wood^ near Peirce- 

 Bridge: Jn Daws, whereof, this Year, one was at 

 Hurworth, near Croft-Bridge, which was altogether 

 white, Neb, Nails and all : And in- Sparrows, which 

 is ufual. I have fent you the little yellow Bird you 

 called Regulus non-crifatus, what Bird it is I know 

 not 3 ( # ) but we have great Store of them each Morn- 

 ing about Sun-rife, and many times a day 5 befides fhe 

 mounts the higheft Branch in the Bum 3 and there 

 with Bill ere£t, and Wing hovering, Hie fends forth 

 a fibilous Noife like that of the Grafhopper, but 

 much fhriller. 



'Tislike enough our Whitethroat is of the Ficedufo} 

 for it is her Manner with us to fall upon a fair and 

 ripe Cherry, whofe Skin when flie hath broken, with 

 a Chirp fhe invites her young Brood, who devour it 

 in a Moment. 



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(*) Doubtlefs this Bird was the Locuftella, in Willughb. Or- 

 nith. Book 1. Ch. 2. §. 5. and not the Regulus non criftatus, 

 Ch. 12. which I call the Yellow Wren, and of which I have 

 difcovered three diftincl Species; but not one of them that fings as is 

 here defcribed, and as I have feen two Sorts (if Imtftahe not) of 

 Locuftella Birds do. W. D, 



