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the other, but a little different in fhape; and is faid to have 
fomewhat of a fpiral fhape, not unlike that of a Nautilus. It fuf- 
pends it, like the other, on the extreme twig of fome tree, chiefly 
one that hangs over fome ftill-water; and always turns the open- 
ing towards that quarter from whence leaft rain may be expected. 
Gros-bec d’Abyflinie, Buf. o:/. ili. p. 470. 
IZE of the Hawfinch. Bill about the fame fize, and black: 
irides red: top and fides of the head, throat, and breaft, 
black: the upper parts of the body, belly, and thighs, pale yel- 
low, inclining to brown where the two colours divide: the fca- 
pulars blackifh: wing coverts brown, bordered with grey: quills 
and tail brown, edged with yellow: legs reddifh grey. 
This bird alfo makes a curious neft, and is found in Abyfinia. 
It is of a pyramidal fhape, and is fufpended from the ends of 
branches, like the others. The opening is on one fide, facing the 
eaft ; the cavity feparated in the middle by a partition, up 
which the bird rifes perpendicularly about half-way, when de- 
fcending, the neft is within the cavity on one fide. By this means 
the brood is defended from fnakes, {quirrels, monkies, and other 
mifchievous animals, befides being fecure from rain, which in 
that country fometimes lafts for fix months together. 
Inhabits’ Abyfiinia. 
Le Nelicourvi de Madagafcar, Sox. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 200. pl. 112. 
IZE of the Houfe Sparrow. Bill black: irides yellow: the 
head, throat, and fore part of the neck, of the laft colour : 
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