OF BI RY DT Be §3 
“CARYOCATACTES. ~~ 
THe NUTCRACKER, 
S found moftly in mountainous countries, 
and lives upon nuts, acorns, wild berries, and 
pine kernels, and on infects, | 
. There are two kinds—one of them breaks the — 
nuts, the other makes a hole i in them, | 
They both hoard their food, like Jays and a 
Magpies. | 
Their plumage is_ very remarkable, from the 
- white triangular fpots every where but on aig 
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 au 
a 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 treés like Woodpeckers: 
they make their nefts there, and fome of the 
_ feathers in the middle of their tails are verymuch 
worn, as if they ufed them to help their climbing | 
' upon the fides of trees. 
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