TRAVELS IN 
Both fpecies of the Baltimore bird (oriolus, Linn, 
iderus, Cat.) are fpring birds of pafiage and breed, 
in Pennfylvania; they have loud and mufical notes. 
The yellow breafled chat (oenanthe, Cat. mota- 
cilia trochilus, Linn.) is in many inftances a very 
fingular bird ; the variablenefs and mimickry of his 
notes or fpeech, imitating various creatures ; and a 
furprifing faculty of uttering a coarfe, hollow found- 
ing noife in their throats or crops, which at times 
feems to be at a great diftance, though uttered 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 autumn. 
It is a matter of enquiry, what fhould have induc- 
ed the zoologifts to clafs this bird with the motacilke, 
when they difcover no one charaderiftic to induce 
fuch an alliance ; this bird having a remarkable 
thick, ftrong bill, more like the frugivorous tribes : 
and in my opinion they are guilty of the like over- 
fight in clafiing the fum'mer red-bird with the muf- 
cicapa, this bird having a thick, ftrong bill, ap- 
proaching nearer the ftarling (fturnus.) 
Thefe hiftorical obfervations being noted, we will 
again refume the fubjed of our journey. 
CHAP. 
