

ar Jae ay Ge eee 
a od it, or in fome hole in. the wall. As foon 
= he comes. ‘out, he fritks amongtt the thick 
branches of the neighbouring buthes, always 
a tailing bis little oi | 
| “His fight i is quick, and j irregular, and he laps 
his little wings fo Jopy that you do not fee their 
“Motion. — - 
gloomy feafon of winter, and fings his little lively 
_ fong, in which, notes, like the words /ideriti, 
a Jideriti are often repeated, with more than ufual. 
He preferves all his gaiety during the cold ol | 
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animation and perfeverance, when the falling 
: 2 flent and torpid. 
“particularly. the wood houfes, feeking amongtt. 
© the. flicks and under the banks, under the roofs 

: the mouths of wells, the chryfalids, and the dead 
ye bodies of infeéts. He frequents the fides of 
a fireams that do not freeze, retiring occafionally. . 
7 ‘into the hollow parts of decayed trees, where — 
4 : twenty have been found crouded together, | 
| mall, that they clude the attempts of their en 
e  pemics, | 
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sy ' : : 

a fhows and chilling cold feem to ) make all nature : 
_ of oir outhoufes, in holes of walls, and ever in. 
Tn that feafon he frequents our court-yards, 
_ Although they are neither thy, nor timid, they | 
‘are not eafily taken; they are fo nimble, and'fo 
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