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they feem to me to be Cock and Hen of the fame Species. I find a Writing under 
this lafl, as well as under another in Dr. Mead’s Collection of Birds from Bengal, 
which are both of the Wood-pecker Kind. Under what I have above defcribed is wrote 
Cautcompa , and under the other, a lels Bird, is wrote Cautccmpab ; which I fnppofe 
to be the Country Name for a Wood-pecker , the Addition of the h to the latter may 
denote a fmaller Species of the fame Genus of Birds. 
Plate 188. On fhewing a Proof-Print of this Plate to the late Duke 
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cf Richmond , he difcovered a Miflake in the Figure of the Cedar of Libanus , whofe 
Cones on the Tree Band quite contrary to what I have figured them ; they always 
flan din g eredf, contrary to the Cones in many other Sorts of Pines. The Miflake 
proceeded from Drawing my Defign from a fingle Branch, brought from the Phyfick 
Garden a tCbelfea, without obfervinghow they grew upon the Tree. 
I received the following Information, relating to this Bird, from his Grace the late 
Duke of Richmond, in a Letter from Goodwood in Sujjex, ad of January, 1746-7. 
Mr. Edwards , 
€c T Shall fend you up in a Day or two a fmall Bird, fomething fmaller than a 
<e Jk Blackbird, and larger than a Bull-finch, which I defire you would draw, 
cc and then prepare him with his Feathers on, that I may put him into my Col- 
“ leCtion $ for it feems to be an extraordinary Bird, at leafl in this Country ; 
<c though a Gentleman that is here, tells me, it is a Bird of Paffage, though he does 
tc not know its Name ; but he has feen a great many of them in Winter, about fome 
<c Pine-Trees at Hackney, where he was at School ; and he has been told, that it 
“ feeds upon the Seeds of the Cones of Pines or Firs. If you know the Bird, I beg 
* c you will acquaint me with it. 
Yours'} 
<c RICHMOND, &c” 
I thought proper to give this Account in the Duke’s own Words, in order 
to illuflrate the Natural Hiflory of this Bird ; and as the Letter contains no- 
thing but what may ferve to that End, I hope I have not broke through the 
Rules either of Modefly or Decency, in publifhing the above curious Account, 
which informs us, that the Haw-Finch is a Bird of Paffage, and that the Win- 
ter is the Seafon when it appears with us 5 and I believe they appear but in 
fmall Numbers, for it is feldom taken alive in England. I imagine this Bird re- 
tires to the Northward in the Summer, (as all Birds that are found in our 
Country only in the Winter Seafon are fuppofed to do) becaufe I find him 
to be a Native of Sweden, Einneus having defcribed him in his Hijlory of 
Swedijh Animals, E. 67, but does not fay whether he be or be not a Bird of 
Paffige in Sweden. I believe he is found in moft Parts of Europe, at certain 
Seafons. 
Plate 
