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thers brown, deepeft in the middle; fome of them have rufous 
and others grey edges: tail deep brown, with rufous edges, ex- 
cept the outer feather, which is edged with white, and the inner 
part of the next to it tipped with white; though in fome birds the 
outer feather is marked obliquely with white near the end, with 
a brown tip: legs yellowifh. 
The female differs in having the head and neck inclining to 
afh-colour, marked with fimall blackifh lines down the fhaft of 
each feather: otherwife like the male. 
Thefe birds are found in feveral parts of Europe, but are not 
met with in Exgland; are common in France and Italy, and fome 
parts of Germany * and Sweden +, migrating from one to the 
_ other in fpring and autumn; and in their paffage are caught in 
numbers, in order to fatten for the table. This is done eafily, 
by including the birds in a dark room, fetting before them plenty 
of oats and millet, which they foon grow fo fat with, that they 
would die from that caufe alone, did not their feeders kill them 
firft, for the fake of emolument from the fale of them. Their 
flefh is thought to be one of the moft exquifite morfels yet 
known, being as it were a lump of rich fat; and the birds ar- 
rived at this ftate will often weigh three ounces each.—It is alfo 
very common in the fouth of Rufia, and in Sibiria, as far as the 
river OF; but never goes much to the north f. 
This fpecies will fometimes fing very pretuly, and has been 
kept for that purpofe. The fone is not unlike that of our Yel- 
low-hammer, but finer and f{weeter. 
In fome parts it makes the neft in a low hedge ; in others, on 
2 Hift. des oif. T Faun. Suec. $ Mr. Pennant. 
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