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pied or male kind, which I thought extraordinary ^ 
and obferving it to the gentleman, he allured me 
that they were all 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 fall. In the 
fpring they are gay, vociferous and tuneful birds. 
Ampelis garrulus ; crown bird or cedar bird. 
Thefe birds feed on various forts of fucculent fruit 
and berries, affociating in little flocks or flights, 
and are to be feen in all the regions fronpt Canady 
to New Orleans on the Miffiffippi, and how much 
farther South and South- Weft I know not. They 
obferve no fixed time of appearance in Pennfyl- 
vania, but are to be feen a few days in every month 
of the year ; fo that it is difficult to determine at 
what feafon they breed, or where. The longeft 
period of their appearance in Pennfylvania is in the 
fpring 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 
(par us cedrus) foon ftrip thole trees of their berries, 
after which they duappear again ; but in November 
and December they appear in fmalier flights, feed- 
ing on the fruit of the Perfimon (Dyoiperos Vir- 
ginians ;) and fome are feen till March, fubfifting 
upon Smilax berries. Privet (Liguftrum vulgare) 
and other permanent fruits i after which they dis- 
appear until May and June. I have been informed 
by fome people in Pennfylvania, that they have 
found their nefts at thefe feafons in Pennfylvania. 
