

OF BIRDS. 59 
CARYOCATACTES. 
Tue NUTCRACKER, 
S found moftly in mountainous countries, 
and lives upon nuts, acorns, wild bers Gie and 
pine kernels, and on infeéts. 
There are two kinds—one of them breaks the 
nuts, the other makes g hole inthem. 
They both hoard their food, like Jays: and 
Magpies. 
Their plumage is very ratiidfeable, from the 
2 white triangular {pots every where but on the 
head. 
They are found in Savoy, in Switzerland, and 
in Auftria; efpecially upon thofe mountains 
which are covered with firs. 
‘A great flight of Nutcrackers came one year 
into France, fo tired, that they fuffered them- 
felves to be beat down with fticks, and to be 
. caught by the hand. 
They bore holes in trees like Woodpeckers : 
_ they make their nefts there, and fome of the 
_ feathers in the middle of their tails are very much 
worn, as if they ufed them to help their climbing 
upon the fides of trees. 
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