yellow-breasted chat. 
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C) f second day ; tlioiigli she was so solicitous 
Ten *^^^1 I'Tcserve it, that her ow’ii eggs, w'hich 
quired tw'o days more sitting, were lost through her 
the '* 1 ** ***** teiuale of the chat is sitting, the cries of 
“Te still more loud and incessant. When once 
i*i ** have seen him, he is less solicitous to 
air * 1 ** uimself; and will sometimes mount up into the 
feet** '''’?®*'P®TPTndicularly,to the height ofthirty or forty 
rg|^ ’ legs hanging ; descending as he rose, by 
said «*i Wghly irritated, or, its is vulgarly 
’ eaucinir mad.” All this noise and gesticulation 
We 
and 
"’hich 
aiust attribute to his extreme affection for his mate 
young ; ail'd when we consider the great distance 
pj, all probability he comes, the few young 
the ****®*^ a time, and that seldom more than once in 
jp ?®ason, we can see the wisdom of Ih-ovidence very 
P'wistly in the ardency of his passions. Mr Catesby 
atuTfl ***.^'P''*^ ®Tst figured the yellow-breasted chat; 
The singularity of its manuers has not escaped him. 
lii TpPeated attemiits to shoot one of them, he found 
If' .*^'*®pletoly baffled ; and was obliged, as he 
Pos /“^PTuis us, to einjiloy an Indian for that pur- 
5o<r,.’ '• "Ot succeed n ithout exercising all his 
Vrg PP'ly- (iatesby also observed its dancing manceu- 
extp, i”, ^’Tppused that it always llcw n ith its legs 
and ®'‘ly 1'* tl'ese paroxysms of rage 
®bserv that this is done, as 1 have p.m-ticularly 
I'cml'*^ *”**** ***^ these birds consists chiefly of large black 
Who *tl’ i^*'**- ahelled insects ; 1 have also found 
fluam'r' frequently in their stomach, in great 
ar„ ,, * well as several other sorts of berries. They 
Parti***^^ numerous in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, 
aituif^™*^- **** PnTders of rivulets, and other watery 
>n til* ’“'dges, thickets, &c. but are seldom seen 
inde V®*"®**’ ®''eu ivhere there is underwood. Catesby 
of 1 ® asserts, that they are only found on the banks 
sea-r 1 ^wo or three hundred miles from the 
• ut, though this may be the case in South Carolina, 
