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Pyrrhacia. 

 Bullfinches feed not only on little worms, but also upon 

 hemp-seed, and the blossoms of peare-plums and apple trees. ■ 



ClTRINELL^. 



Citrmels or straw-coloured Finges, [i.e. Finches] be very 

 small Birds, feeding chiefly of white ancl black poppy seed but 

 especially of the wild-poppy called Red-weed. 



Certhi^. 

 Creepers seem to be a kind of Titmice, living upon the 

 worms which engender in and betwixt the barks of trees. 

 Fringill.e. 

 Finches for the most part live upon seeds, especially the 

 Goldfinch, which refuseth to eat of anything else. 



ACANTHIS AtLANTICA. 



So also doth the Canarie Finch or Siskin ; yet the Bullfinch 

 in hunger feeds upon small worms ; and the Greenfinch upon 

 horsedung, and nuts in frosty weather. 



Alaud.^. 

 Larks are of three sorts : Field Larks, Wood Larks, and 

 Heath Larks . . . Some of each sort are high crested like a 

 Lapwing, others uncrested . . . 



LiNARIiE. 



Linnets feed chiefly upon flax seed ; but for a need they eat 

 also the seed of hemp and thistles. 



Apodes. 

 Martinets are either smooth or hairy legg'd : for neither of 

 them have perfect feet, but stumps instead of feet. [The 

 heraldic martin is always blazoned without legs, cf. Phipson, 

 Animal Lore of Shakespeare's Time, p. 192.] 



LusciNiiE. 

 Nightingales as Martial said are nothing worth when their 

 breath is departed . . . They feed filthily in the fields upon 

 spiders and ants . . . 



Pari majores. 

 Oxeys or great Titmice, feed (as ordinary Titmice do) upon 

 caterpillars, blossoms of Trees, bark worms and files, . . . 



RUBECUL^. 



Robin-red- breasts feed upon bees, files, gnats, walnuts, nuts 

 and crumbs of bread. . . . 



Passeres. 



Sparrows of the house, feed commonly on the best corn. . . 

 but the red [reed ?] and hedg Sparrows feed ill — . . . 



