CAROLINA CHATTERER. 
were in general fainter, as it commonly hap- 
pens in the Females.'* 
From this conclusion, which seems to justify 
our suggestion as to what has influenced the 
above blended description of BufFon, we may 
perhaps be permitted to consider the extremiity 
of tlie Female American Chatterer's tail as 
edged with a shining white, instead of a fine 
golden yellow like that of the Male. 
The learned and ingenious Dr. Benjamin 
Smith Barton, Professor of Materia Medica, 
Natural History, and Botany, in the University 
of Pennsylvania, in the valuable work which 
he with so much diffidence calls Fragments of 
the Natural History of Pennsylvania, mentions 
this bird, which is there called the Prib-Chat- 
terer, or Cedar Bird, as sometimes breeding in 
Pennsylvania, though only a passage bird. 
He informs us, that it usually arrives in Penn- 
sylvania about the middle of September, from 
the North ; to feed on the berries of the Red- 
Cedar, orjuniperus Virginiana, which are then 
ripening. 
