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compofcd of hay or ftubble, the middle part of 

 mofs, the infide of feathers, wool, and hair. Du- 

 ring breeding-time, that bird which is not engaged 

 in incubation, or nutrition, has a pretty way of 

 fporting on wing over the buih. They lay five 

 or fix eggs of a pale green color, marked with 

 blood colored fpots. Their native note has nothing 

 mufical in it-, but a late writer on finging-birds 

 fays, they may be taught to pipe or whiftle in 

 imitation of other birds. 



This bird is fo eafily tamed^v that it frequently 

 eats out of one's hand five minutes after it is ta- 

 ken, if you have an opportunity of carrying it into 

 the dark ; the bird fhould be then put upon your 

 finger, which it does not attempt to move from (as 

 being in darknefs it does not know where to fly) 

 you then introduce the finger of your other hand 

 under its bread, which, making it inconvenient to 

 flay upon the firft finger on which it was before 

 placed, it climbs upon the fecond, where it like- 

 wife continues, and for the fame reaibn. When 

 this hath been nine or ten times repeated, and the 

 bird ftroked and carefTed, it finds that you do not 

 mean to do it any harm ; and if the light is let 

 in by degrees, it will very frequently eat any bruif- 

 ed feed out of your hand, and afterwards continue 

 tame. 



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