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ginia % and were fo prodigious in number as to darken 
the Sky for (e vera I Hours in the place over which they 
flew, and brake maffie Bows where they light ; and 
many like things which I have had aflerted to me by 
many Eye- witness of Credit, that to me it was with- 
out doubt, the Relaters being very fober Perfons, and 
all agreeing in a Story : nothing of the like ever hap- 
pen'd fince, nor did I ever fee pail Ten in a Flock toge- 
ther that I remember. I am not fond of fuch Stories, 
and had fopprefled the relating of it, but that I have 
heard the fame from very many. 
The Thrufti and Feldefire are much like ours, and 
are only feen in Winter there* accordingly as they are 
here. 
Their Mocking Birds may be compared to onr Sing- 
ing Thrufhes, being much of the fame bignefs; there 
are two forts, the Gray and the Red, the gray has Fea- 
thers much of the colour of our gray Plovers with 
white in the Wings like a Magpye ; this has the much 
fofter Note, and will imitate,in its finging, the Notes of 
all Birds that it hears, and is accounted much the fineft 
Singing Bird in the World. Dr. Moulin and 1 made in 
our Anatomy many Obfervations of Singing Birds to 
this effect : The Ears of Birds differ much irom thofe 
of Men or Beafts,there s aimed a dire<9: paffage from one 
Ear to the other of Birds, fo that prick but the fmall - 
Membrane called the Drum on either Ear, and Water 
poured in atone Ear will run out at the other: But this 
is not all, but what is much more remarkable, they have 
no CoeJea, but inftead thereof there's a fmall Cocleous 
or twifting Paffage that opens into a large Cavity, that 
runs betwixt two Sculls, and pafies all round the Head, 
the upper Scull isfupported by many hundreds of ftnalf 
Thred-like Fillers or Fibers, which as we fuppofed had 
another ule alfo, to brake the Sound from making any 
confufed Eccho, and to make it one and diftind,- this 
