to the opinion of the Infide of the ftomach's being hairy ; th<* 
fmooth caterpillars were all feemingly unhurt, though quite 
dead. 
The young birds differ very Gonfiderably from the adults, 
being all over mottled with brown and ferruginous ; they do 
not attain their full plumage till after the fecohd moult ; the 
eggs are of a dufky white, fpotted with various tints of afh* 
colour and olive green, the fpots are moft numerous at the 
larger end. The females do not arrive till fome time after 
the males, nor do they quit till a week or two later ; their 
note is a loud hoarfe fcream or chatter* 
Since the above went to prefs, we have feen two birds, one 
on the twenty-fixth and the other on the twenty-feventh of 
the prefent month (Auguft) the former one was a male, and 
was uttering its well known cry of Cuckow, this it did very 
hoarfely j the fex of the latter one we did not difcover. 
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