NATURAL HISTORY 
Birds that fing as they fly are but few. 
SL-yhrk, 
Titlark, 
Woodlark, 
Blackbird, 
White-throat, 
Swallow, 
Wren, 
Haven, 
So g thrufh, 
Blackbird, 
Hook, 
Woodlirk, 
Sing dove. 
R A 1 1 NOMINA, 
Alauda -vulgaris : 
Alatida pratorum : 
Alauda arhorea : 
Mcrula : 
Ficedula affims : 
Hlriindo domejlica : 
Pajft r troglodytes : 
Rifmg, fufpended, and falling, 
f In it's defcent ; alfo fitting on trees, 
I and walking on the ground, 
f Sufpended ; in hot fummer nights all 
\ right long. 
Sometimes from bulh to biifh. 
r Ufes when finging on the wing odd 
I jerks and gelHculations. 
In foft funny weather. 
Sometimes from bufh to bulh. 
Birds that breed moft early in thefe parts : 
CoK'Vus : 
T Urdus : 
Merula : 
Comix frugihga : 
Alauda arborea : 
Palii77ibus torquatus . 
Hatches In February and March,. 
In March. 
In March. 
Builds the beginning of March, 
Hatches in April. 
Lays the beginning of April. 
All birds that continue in full fong till after M'ldfummer appear 
to me to breed more than once. 
Moft kinds of birds feem to me to be wild and fhy fomewhat in 
proportion to their bulk ; I mean in this ifland, where they are 
much purfued and annoyed : but in Afcenfton Ifland, and m.any 
other defolate places, mariners have found fowls fo unacquainted 
with an human figure, that they would ftand fliill to be taken ; as 
is the cafe Vv'ith boobies, Sec. As an example of what is advanced, 
I remark that the golden-crejled -ivren (the fmalleft Br'itijh bird) will 
fiand unconcerned till you come within three or four yards of it, 
while the hufiard (ot'is), the largeft Britijlo land fowl, does not care 
to admit a perfon within fo many furlongs. I am, &c. 
LETTER 
