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 whitle. The wren is alo of the ize and figure of thoe in England, and ings delightfully, epecially early in the morning, and in the evening when other birds are at root: for which reaon it is by ome, called the nightingale. What is remarkable of the inging birds of this country is, that they loe their inging faculties when taken, pine away and die, notwithtanding the greatet attention is paid to them.

There are alo great numbers of owls in the woods of this iland, and they make a mot hideous, diagreeable noie in the night-time. Swallows and bats are here likewie in great plenty; the latter breeding in hollow trees and in old houes; but it has not yet been dicovered where the wallows breed, or retire to; yet they are frequently een flying in great flocks during the wet eaon, and their appearance is reckoned a ure token of approaching rainy weather. Dominica