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they feem to me to be Cock and Hen of the fame Species. I find a Writing under 
this laft, as well as under another in Dr. Mead' s Colle&ion of Birds from Bengal y 
which are both of the Wood-pecker Kind. Under what I have above defcribed is wrote 
Cautcompa y and under the other, a lefs Bird, is wrote Cautcompah ; which I fuppofe 
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 i 88. On fhewing a Proof-Print of this Plate to the late Duke 
of Richmond ’, he difcovered a Miftake in the Figure of the Cedar of LibanuSy whofe 
Cones on the Tree ftand quite contrary to what I have figured them ; they always 
ftanding eredt, contrary to the Cones in many other Sorts of Pines. The Miftake 
proceeded from Drawing my Defign from a fingle Branch, brought from the Phyfick 
Garden at Chelfea , without obferving how they grew upon the Tree. 
I received the following Information, relating to this Bird, from his Grace the late 
Duke of Richmondy in a Letter from Goodwood in SufJ'eXy ad of January , 1746-7, 
Mr. Edwardsy 
£c X Shall fend you up in a Day or two a fmall Bird, fomething fmaller than a 
<c X Blackbird, and larger than a Bull-finch, which I defire you would draw, 
tl and then prepare him with his Feathers on, that I may put him into my Col- 
“ ledtion j for it feems to be an extraordinary Bird, at leaf! in this Country ; 
“ though a Gentleman that is here, tells me, it is a Bird of Pafiage, though he does 
“ not know its Name ; but he has feen a great many of them in Winter, about fome 
£c Pine-Trees at Hackney y where he was at School; and he has been told, that it 
<c feeds upon the Seeds of the Cones of Pines or Firs. If you know the Bird, I beg 
“ you will acquaint me with it. 
Tours, 
“RICHMOND, &c'[ 
I thought proper to give this Account in the Duke’s own Words, in order 
to illuftrate the Natural Hiftory 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 Modefty or Decency, in publifhing the above curious Account, 
which informs us, that the Haw-Finch is a Bird of Pafiage, and that the Win¬ 
ter is the Seafon when it appears with us; 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 y Linneus having defcribed him in his Hijlory of 
Swedifj Animalsy E. 67, but does not fay whether he be or be not a Bird of 
Pafiage in Sweden. I believe he is found in ra&ft Paris of Europe , at certain 
Seafon s. 
Plate 
