TH£ NATURAL HISTORY 
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it is only whilfl they are flying, that he makes 
his attack. 
Mr. Catefoy faw one fix itfelf on an Eagle, 
anJ perfecute him fo, that the Eagle turned upon 
his back, and put himfelf into a variety of pof- 
tures as he flew, but in vain ; atlength he alighted 
upon a tree, and kept perched there until the lit¬ 
tle tyrant left him through fatigue. 
Whilft the female fits, the male perches upon 
•a bufh, or (hrub, near the nefi, and chaces away 
any little bird that approaches ; but if a large bird, 
an Eagle, Hawk, or Crow, come within a quarter 
of a mile, immediately he makes his aflault, and 
drives it to a diftance. When his young are 
flown, his impetuofity ceafes, and he becomes as 
peaceable as other birds. 
The CHATTERING FLY-CATCHER, 
Inhabits the interior parts of Carolina, two cr 
three hundred miles from the fea ; it lives by the 
banks of great rivers,'and fereams fo loud that 
the noife is reverberated from rock to rock. 
It is fo fhy, that the fowler with difficulty can 
approach it; it flies with its l,egs hanging down, 
and often riles perpendicularly, and alights by 
