Dr. Lifter to Mr. Ray. 1 3 j 



Cwringius, a late Piece: I would you faw it, 

 for I think it worth the inferring into your Hiftory. 



If I meet with any thing farther, I will give you 

 notice of it. 



The Curruca, or Hedge-Sparrow, which I have of- 

 ten feen, lays Sea-green, or pale-blue Eggs, which 

 neatly emptied and wired, fair Ladies wear at their 

 Ears for Pendants. 



One and the fame Swallow I have known, by the 

 fubftrafting daily of her Eggs, to have layea ip 

 fuccefjively, and then to have given over. 



The Bunting breaks not Oats, but fhells, or hulls 

 them moft dextroufly, as I obferve, having of them 

 by me at this prefent in Cages. 



The Robbin-red-breaft , will not touch a hairy 

 Caterpillar, but will gladly take and eat any fort of 

 fmooth one that I have given to him > and there is 

 no better Way fpeedily to tame, and make wild Birds 

 fing, than to give them a pleafing Infe£t or two daily $ 

 neither thin nor thick-bilFd Birds but will gladly eat 

 Spiders, as I have experienc'd in fome Kinds. 



Tork, Feb. 8. —75;. 



'Urn m ntf 



Sir Philip Skippon from Wrentham 

 to Mr. Ray. 



SIR, Wrentham, Feb. u. \6y\. 



I Shall now acquaint you, that having read the Ob- 

 fervations fent from Barbadoes, and publifli'd N°. 

 117. of the Philofophical Tranfa&ions, I foon after 

 difcourfed about them with one Mr. Tho. Glover, an 

 ingenious Chirurgeon of thefe Parts, who lately came 

 from our Weftern Plantations, having lived fome 



