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Both fpecies of the Baltimore bird (oriolus, Linn, 
iderus, Cat.) are fpring b’rds of paffage and breed 
in Pennfylvania; they have load nd mufical notes. 
The yellow breafted chat (oenanthe, Cat. mota- 
cilia trochilus, Linn.) is in many inilances a very 
finguiar bird; the variablenefs and mimickry of his 
notes or fpeech, imitating various creatures ; and 
a furprifng faculty of uttering a coarfe, hollow 
founding node in their throats or crops, which at 
times feems to be at a great difiance, though ut- 
tered by a bird very near, and vice verfa. They 
arrive in Pennfylvania from the South, late in the 
month of May, breed and return again early in au- 
tumn. 
It is a matter of enquiry, what fhould have indu- 
ced the zoologies to clafs this bird with the motacil- 
IcE, when they difcover no one charaderiftic to in- 
duce fuch an alliance; this bird having a remark- 
able thick, firong bill, more like the frugivorous 
tribes : and in my opinion they are guilty of the 
like overfight in clafling the fummer red-bird with 
the mufcicapa, this bird having a thick, firong bill, 
approaching nearer the flarling (Humus.) 
Thefe hifborical obfervations being noted, we will 
again refume the fubjed of our journey. 
CHAP. 
