PLATE XXXII. 
Tk Wall Birds 
j!\.RE of fucli a nature as to alTociate with no other bird, but hve entirely to themfelves; they make 
choice of the raoft retired part of a garden, and if there are bees kept, they will frequent their 
haunts, for they are very deftruflive to thofe infefls ; they will place themfelves on fome poft or pales 
near the hives and watch them out, when they inflantly dart at them, and feize them as prey ; flies 
and fpiders alfo they feed upon; they are harmlefs in every other refpefl; but that of deftroying bees. 
They have not the leafl fong, or hardly any note whatever; the)' are of a ftill and quiet nature, re- 
gardlefs of every thing but their food; and neither quarrelfome nor play full as moft other birds are. 
They lay five eggs, fomewhat refembling the Robin's in colour; they build in holes of walls and pofts> 
or any fuch places, not at all fecreting their neft, which is compofed of a little dried mofs or dirty 
ftraws, but principally fpider's webbs; they make ufe of a little hair to line it. Although they fit 
three or four times in a feafon, few are to be feen, which gives reafon to fuppofe that many do not 
live through the winter. 
