GRALLiE. 
6. Scolopax nutans ? Nodding Snipe ? Seen and killed in the winter-time, near Nazareth, in Pennfylvania. On 
the authority of Mr. Oppelt. Mentioned by Mr. Pennant, as having been obferved in Chateaux Bay, on the 
coafl of Labrador, in September. Arctic Zoology. Vol. II. P. 167. 
7. Charadrius Himantopus. Long-Legged Plover. On the authority of Mr. Oppelt. 
8. Haematopus Oltralegus. Pied-Oyfter-Catcher. 
PASSERES. 
9. Loxia ludoviciana. Red-Breafled Grofs-Beak. 
10. Fringilla purpurea. Purple Finch. This is one of our birds of paflage. Early in the fpring, fometimes in 
February, it comes up from the fouth, and returns from the north, going fouthward, in Oflober. 
11. Fringilla-. (Hemp-Bird.) This is one of our migratory birds. It is not the Fringilla cannabina of 
Linnmus; but, like it, feeds on the ripe hemp-feed. Is often feen about Philadelphia. On the authority of Mr. 
Williany Bartram, who thinks it an undeferibed fpecies. 
12. Hirundo Subis. Canada Swallow,! Great American Martin.On the authority of Mr. Oppelt, who ob¬ 
ferved it in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem. Has never been feen about Philadelphia. Yet it is probable, 
that it is a bird of paffage. Perhaps, it paffes from the north to the fouth, and.returns to the north, through 
the country weft of the great ranges of our mountains, which is certainly the rout purfued by fome of the migra¬ 
tory birds that are feldom, or never, feen in the Atlantic parts of the United-States. Perhaps, this is no other 
than the Tapera of Brafil, the Hirundo Tapera of Gmelin. 
13. Caprimulgus europaeus. European Goatfucker. (Night-Hawk). In Maryland, If I miflake not, it is called 
Bull-Bat. Pifehk ? of the Delaware-Indiaiis. This, or a variety of it, is certainly a native of Pennfylvania. 
So that now all the fifteen fpecies of this genus (mentioned by Gmelin) are known to be natives of America; 
and all, with the exception of the Caprimulgus europaeus, are, as far as is yet known, exclufively confined to 
this portion of the world. This is an interefling fad, which does not favour the opinion of thofe writers who have 
imagined, that all animals and all vegetables were originally created in the old world, from whence they have 
been fpread over every portion of the earth : an opinion which ought never to have been advanced by philo- 
fophers; and which it is not likely will prevail among thofe naturalifls who obferve with attention, and deliver 
their fentiments without referve or timidity. § 
, f Latham, t Edwards. 
§ See New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. Pages cl, cli, clil, civ. Philadelphia; 1798.’ 
