CAROLINA CHATTERER. 
What Buffon acids, on this subject, to his 
account of the Common Chatterer, is as fol- 
lows — 
We may observe," says he, "that the 
Chatterer is proportionably much broader across 
the wings, than the Blackbird or Thrushes. 
Aldrovandus has also remarked, that the ster- 
num is of a shape better adapted for cutting the 
air, and accelerating it's course. We need 
not, then, be surprised that it performs such 
distant journies in Europe ; and, since it spends 
the summer in the countries of the north, we 
should naturally expe6l to discover it in Ame- 
rica. This is a6bually the case. Reaumur 
received several from Canada, v, here they were 
called Recollet, on account of the resemblance 
perceived between the crest and a Monk's frock. 
From Canada they could easily spread into the 
southern colonies, Catesby describes them 
among the birds of Carolina ; Fernandez, who 
calls it the Caquantototl, and says that it delights 
to dwell in the mountains, that it lives on small 
seeds, that it's song is ordinary, and that it's 
flesh is indilFerent food, saw these birds in 
Mexico, near Tezcuco ; I," adds BulFon, 
have 
