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I muft alfo take leave to correct one Miftake in Mr. 
Ray's Synopfis Quadruped. &c. p. 195. where he fays? 
that Muflela vulgaris is called here a Foumart or Fitcket. 
Putorius is called here a Foumart , qua/t foul Mart, or 
ftinking Mart, in oppofition to the Martes which emit a 
mosky Smell, and are often met with in our Woods, and 
taken by the Hunters in Snows. 
The Ermin is not unfrequently met with here in Win- 
ter, and look’d upon, when they appear, to prefage Snow. 
I ftiould not here have taken Notice of it, it being alfo 
met with in mod Counties of England , but that 1 have 
had an opportunity, in two or three Inftances, of ob» 
ferving the Time of its Change?. Itbegins to change its 
Colour from Brown to White, about the beginning of 
November, 1 had one of them brought me about No- 
vember was two Years, when I firft obferved this change. 
1 have feen one or two of them, that in the beginning 
©f Match were changing from White to Brown. Qit. 
Whether thefe Animals do not always continue White in 
the more Northern Parts of the World > 
The Nut-hatch , or Nut-jobber , is not frequently to be 
met with in the South, yet is fo common with us, that I 
have fometimes feen fix or feven of them in one Day in 
my own Woods, This muft be the Bird that Dr. Plot 
in his Nat. Hijh of Oxfordjhire , calls a Wood-Cracker , and 
takes to be an undefcribed Bird. 1 have with much 
Pleafure often obferved thefe Birds to crack Nuts, 
which they do with very great Dexterity. I order’d one 
of my Servants, that was with me in a Wood iaft C£W/£- 
mafs, to obferve from whence {he fetch’d her Provifion , 
which he foon difcover’d in a hollow Tree, and cutting 
the Place open, brought from thence feveral Pints off 
very choice Nuts. 
1 met with a Neft of the Regulus Criftatusj in a thick 
Thorn Hedge, in my own Orchard, which was built 
round,. 
