of the Miffel thrush, the largest of our fongfters concerning which Mri Pen1 nant acquaints us, that "it begins its "fong, which is 31116 weken 15. Very fine, fitting "the fummit of a high tree, very early 1 on "in the fpring, often with the new bas year, in blowing fhowery weather ; "whence the inhabitants of Hampshire call it the Storm-cock." M WE have feen how exquifitely Thomfon has painted a hot fummer's noon, by a group of animals oppreffed with languor under the beams of a meridian fun. Were the inftant of time changed, and the effects of a lefs overpowering heat to be reprefented, a distinguished place in the landskip might be allotted to the fox, which in warm weather will quit its habitation for the fake of basking "basking in the fun, or to enjoy the "fresh air; but then it rarely lies ex-s "posed, but chufes fome thick brake, : "and generally of gorfe, that it may, "reft fecure from furprise. Crows, magpies, and other birds, who con~/1 "fider the fox as their common enemy, << will often, by their notes of anger, "point out its retreat." yoosb ada pe Duct blow satt on " Ir is fomewhat extraordinary that the very curious œconomy of the de-> coys for wild ducks should have escaped> Thomfon's notice. The marshywood→ ed folitudes in which they are placed; the art with which they are conftructed; the wonderful instinct which renders thefe creatures capable of being taught to be the crafty betrayers of their com panions, the surprise and struggle of the strangers on finding themselves un-" expectedly entrapped, would‹ all together afford copious matter as well for fentiment as defcription. A circumstance relating to them, mentioned by Mr. Pennant, would be a pleafing, and entirely new object in an evening picture. As foon as the evening fets "in, the decoy rifes (as they term it) " and the wild fowl feed during night. "If the evening is ftill, the noise of "their wings, during their flight, is heard at a great distance, and isya "pleafing, though rather melancholy "found, "ons donde u obould be bafburtinos 16 yada dɔiów do ra sit 21THE agreeableufel Mr.Jago has made of the migration of fwallows, was just how remarked. The moral plan of his poem rendered it lefs proq adr per per to enter minutely into the natural part of the phenomenon; but a defcriptive poet might greatly improve the picture from Mr. Pennant's article on that fubject. With what pleafing and picturefque circumftances are the departure and return of the swallows reprefented in the two following relations? "Mr. White (a clergyman "of Selborne, Hants) on Michaelદ mas 1768, had the good fortune to "have ocular proof of what may rea"fonably be fuppofed an actual migra tion of fwallows. Travelling that "morning very early between his house and the coaft, at the beginning of his journey he was environed with a thick fog; but on a large wild heath << the mift began to break, and difcover<ed to him numberlefs fwallows, cluf"<tered દ *tered on the ftanding bufhes, as if *they had roofted there? as foon as the fun burft out, the Jong 1900 out, they were inftantly on wing and with an eafy and placid flight, proceeded towards the sea. -9b 91 915-20%) -91 zwollow si to "RETURNING home" fays Sir Charles Wager, in the fpring of the year, as "I came into founding in our channel, 10 a great flock of fwallows came and "fettled on all my rigging; every rope "was covered; they hung on one ano "ther like a fwarm of bees; the decks Jadi onik and carving were filled with them. stood "They feemed almost famifhed and fpent, and were only feathers and 21 M "bones; but being recruited with a night's reft, took their flight in the |