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I have educated nettling linnets under the three 

 bed Tinging larks, the Jkylark, woodlark, and tit* 

 Iark y every one of which, in ftead of the linnet's 

 fong, adhered entirely to that of their refpedtive 

 inftruclors. . 



When the note of the titlark- linnet * was tho- 

 roughly fixed, I hung the bird in a room with two 

 common linnet?, for a quarter of a year, which were 

 full in fongj the titlark- linnet, however, did not 

 borrow any paflages from the linnet's fong, but 

 adhered ftedfattly to that of the titlark. 



I had fome curiofity to find out whether an 

 European nettling would equally learn the note of 

 an African bird : I therefore educated a young lin- 

 net under a vengolina -f, which imitated its Afri- 

 can matter fo exactly, without any mixture of the 

 linnet fong, that it was impottible to diftinguifh the 

 one from the other. 



* I thus call a bird which fings notes he would not have 

 learned in a wild ftate ; thus by a Jkylark-iinnct, I mean a lin- 

 net with the fkylark fong ; a nightingale-robin, a robin with 

 the nightingale fong, &c. 



f This bird feems not to have been defcribed by any of the 

 ornithologies ; it is of the finch tribe, and about the fame fize 

 with our aberdavine (or filkin). The colors arc grey and 

 white, and the cock hath a bright yellow fpot upon the rump. 

 It is a very familiar bird* and fings better than any of thofe 

 which are not European, except the American mocking bird. 

 An inftance hath lately happened, in an aviary at Hamfied, of 

 a wngotinefs breeding with a Canary bird. 



This 



