NUTCRACKER. 
former breal^s them, and the latter bores them. 
These birds also feed on acorns, wild berries, 
the kernels of pine-tops, and even inse6ls ; and, 
like the Jays, the Magpies, and the Daws, 
they conceal what they cannot consume. 
The Nutcracker,'* says BufFon, " is re- 
markable for the triangular white spots which 
^re spread over it's whole body, except the 
head. These spots arc smaller on the upper 
part, and broader on the breast ; their efFe6t is 
the greater, as they are contrasted with the 
brown ground. These birds are most at- 
tached to mountainous situations. They are 
common in Auvergne, Savoy, Lorraine, 
Franchc-Compte, Switzerland, the Berga- 
masque, and in the Austrian mountains co- 
vered with forests of pine: they occur, also, 
in Sweden, though only in the southern parts 
of that country, and rarely elsewhere than in 
Smoland. Gerinire marks, that they are never 
seen in Tuscany. The common people in 
Germany, call them Turkey birds, Italian 
birds, or African birds ; which language only 
means, that they are foreign." Just as, in Eng- 
land, 
