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4 GENERAL REMARKS
and comfort. The infects and wild berries furnifh them with a
plentiful fubfiftence : and as there is no night, which would oblige
their young ones to fait, or check their growth by its chilling cold,
they are able to diveft themfelves of their family cares in a much
fhorter {pace of time than they could do in other diftrits.
I have, in the courfe of this work, mentioned more than once
the fongs of the birds, with which the woods of Lapland re-echo.
I have often been aftonifhed to hear in thefe places birds fing very
charmingly, which I had before confidered as mute, and ‘totally
deprived by nature of all vocal power. The motacilla trochilus of
Linnzus, which comes to Italy about autumn, is in Lombardy
called ui, becaufe its fhort and abrupt cry bears a refemblance to
this found: but the fame bird may juftly be termed the nightin-
gale of the north. It fettles on the moft lofty branches of the
birch-trees, and makes the air refound with accents melodious,
bold, and full of harmony. This is likewife the cafe with the em-
beriza geniclos, which has a clear and ftrong voice ; and animates
with its mufical notes the fhades of the alder and willow-trees,
that grow by the fides of the brooks and rivers.
But there is another bird, which more highly deferves our ad-
miration, as it furpaffes all the reft by the beauty of its plumage
and the fweetnefs of its voice: this is the motacilla fuecica. It lives
in the bufhes of marfhy places, and particularly likes to perch on
the dwarf-birch, (betula nana, Linn.); its flight 1s generally low: it
makes its neft in the mofs, and lays between five and feven eggs,
ef a greenifh colour, nearly refembling that of the mofs, with
which
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