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pied or male kind, which I thought extraordinary^ 
and obferving it to the gentleman, he allured me 
that they were a" of the male kind, taken the pre- 
ceding fpring, but had changed their colour, and 
would be next fpring of the colour of the pied, 
thus changing colour with the feafons of the year. 
If this is really the cafe, it appears they are both of 
the fame fpecies intermixed, fpring and falh In the 
ipring they are gay, vociferous and tuneful birds. 
Ampelis garrulus ; crown bird or cedar bird* 
Thefe birds feed on various forts of fucculent frui c 
and berries, aflbciating in little Bocks or flights, 
and are to be feen in all the regions from Canada 
to New Orleans on the Mifliflippi, and how much 
farther South and South- Well I know not. They 
oblerve no fixed time of appearance in Pennfyk 
vania, but are to be feen in a few days every month 
of the year , fo that it is difficult to determine at 
what feafon they breed, or where. The longed; 
period of their appearance in Pennfylvania is in the 
ipring and firft of June, at the time the early cher- 
ries are ripe, when they are numerous ; and in the 
autumn when the Cedar berries are ripe (juniperus 
Americana ; they arrive in large flights, and, with 
the robins (turdus migratorius) and yellow rump 
(parus cedrus) foon flrip thofe trees of their berries, 
after which they disappear again; but in November 
and December they appear in fmaller flights, feed- 
ing on the fruit of the Perfimon (Dyofpyros Vir- 
giniana;) and feme are feen till March, fubfifting 
upon Smilax be i lies. Privet (Liguftrum vulgare) 
and other permanent fruits ; after which they dif- 
ay-pear until May and June. I have been informed 
h y fome people in Pennfylvania, that they have 
fpund their nefts at thefe feafons in Pennfylvania, 
