NUTCRACKER, 
land, Buffon might ha-ve added, the vulgar 
call every foreigner a Frenchmaru 
** Though the Nutcrackers are not birds 
©f passage," observes BufFon, *' they fly 
sometimes from the mountains to the plains. 
In 1754, great flights of them entered France ; 
particularly. Burgundy, where there are few 
pines. They were so fatigued on their arri- 
val, that they suffered themselves to be caught 
by the hand. One was killed, m the OiS^ober 
of that same year,, at Mostyn, in Flintshire ^ 
which was supposed to have come from Ger- 
many ► We may remark ^ that this year was 
exceedingly arid and hot, which must have 
dried up most of the springs^ and much af- 
fedled those fruits on which the Nutcrackers 
xisually feed. Besides, as thev seemed,, on. 
their arrival, to be furnished, and were caught 
by almost every sort of bait, it is probable that 
they were constrained to abandon tiicir re- 
treats by the want of subsistence 
*-'^ One of tlie reasons, it is said, whr tlie* 
Nutcrackers do not settle and breed in the in- 
viting climates^ is tlic perpetual war wagcdi 
against 
