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air even fwifter than the winds, and in a few 
hours time fhift twenty degrees from north to 
fouth, even from frozen 'regions to climes where 
froft is never feen, and where the air and plains 
are replenifhed with flying infers of infinite va- 
riety, its favourite and only food. 
Penfylvania and Virginia appear to me to be 
the climates in North-America, where the greatdl 
variety and abundance of thefe winged emigrants 
choofe to celebrate their nuptials, and rear their 
offspring, which they annually return with, to their 
winter habitations, in the fouthern regions of N. 
America ; and moft of thofe beautiful creatures, 
which annually people and harmonife our forefts and 
groves, in the fpring and fummer feafons, are birds 
of paflage from the fouthward. The eagle, i. e. 
falco leucocephalus, or bald eagle, falco maximus, 
or great grey eagle, falco major cauda ferrugineo, 
falco pullarius, falco columbarius, ftrix pythaulis, 
ftrix acclamatus, ftrix affio, tetrao tympanus, or 
pheafant of Penfylvania, tetrao urogallus, or 
mountain cock or grous of Penfylvania, tetrao 
minor five coturnix, or partridge of Penfylvania, 
picus, or woodpeckers of feveral fpecies, corvus 
carnivorus, or raven, corvus frugivora, or crow, 
corvus glandarius f. corvus criftatus, or blue jay, 
alauda maxima, regulus atrofufcus minor, or marfh 
wren, fttta, or nuthatch, meleagris, are perhaps 
nearly all the land birds which continue the year 
round in Penfylvania. I might add to thefe the 
blue bird, motacilla fialis, mock bird, turdus poly- 
glottos, and fometimes the robin redbreaft, turdus 
migratorius, in extraordinary warm winters; and 
although I do not pretend to aflfert as a known 
truth, yet it may be found on future obfervation 
that 
