This Bird sings excellently well,
but is not so common amongst us as the former.
{Cat-Bird.}
The Cat-Bird, so nam'd, because it makes a Noise exactly like young Cats.
They have a blackish Head, and an Ash-coloured Body,
and have no other Note that I know of. They are no bigger than a Lark,
yet will fight a Crow or any other great Bird.
{Cuckoo.}
The Cuckoo of Carolina may not properly be so call'd,
because she never uses that Cry; yet she is of the same Bigness and Feather,
and sucks the Small-Birds Eggs, as the English Cuckoo does.
{Blue-Bird.}
A Blue-Bird is the exact Bigness of a Robin-red-breast.
The Cock has the same colour'd Breast as the Robin has, and his Back,
and all the other Parts of him, are of as fine a Blue, as can possibly be seen
in any thing in the World. He has a Cry, and a Whistle. They hide themselves
all the Winter.
{Bulfinch.}
Bulfinches, in America, differ something from those in Europe,
in their Feathers, tho' not in their Bigness. I never knew any one tame,
therefore know not, what they might be brought to.
{Nightingale.}
The Nightingales are different in Plumes from those in Europe.
They always frequent the low Groves, where they sing very prettily all Night.
{Hedge-Sparrow.}
Hedge-Sparrows are here, though few Hedges. They differ scarce any thing
in Plume or Bigness, only I never heard this Whistle,
as the English one does; especially after Rain.
{Wren.}
The Wren is the same as in Europe, yet I never heard any Note she has
in Carolina.
{Sparrow.}
Sparrows here differ in Feather from the English. We have
several Species of Birds call'd Sparrows, one of them much resembling
the Bird call'd a Corinthian Sparrow.
{Lark.}
The Lark with us resorts to the Savannas, or natural Meads,
and green Marshes. He is colour'd and heel'd as the Lark is;
but his Breast is of a glittering fair Lemon-Colour, and he is as big
as a Fieldfare, and very fine Food.
{Red-Birds.}
The Red-Birds (whose Cock is all over of a rich Scarlet Feather,
with a tufted Crown on his Head, of the same Colour)
are the Bigness of a Bunting-Lark, and very hardy, having a strong thick Bill.
They will sing very prettily, when taken old, and put in a Cage.
They are good Birds to turn a Cage with Bells; or if taught,
as the Bulfinch is, I believe, would prove very docible.
{East-India Bats.}
East-India Bats or Musqueto Hawks, are the Bigness of a Cuckoo,
and much of the same Colour. They are so call'd, because the same sort
is found in the East-Indies. They appear only in the Summer,
and live on Flies, which they catch in the Air, as Gnats, Musquetos, &c.
