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13. 
Var. A. 
DEscRIPTION. 
PLace. 
13. 
Var. B. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Bee VON Cr Ee 
to be particularly fond of beech maf?, and will alfo eat feeds of 
many other kinds: their flefh is eaten by many, but is apt to 
prove bitter. They are faid to breed about Luxemburg, making 
the neft on the tall fir-trees, compofed of long mofs without, and 
lined with wool and feathers within: the eggs are four or five in 
number, yellowith, and fpotted; and the young are fledged at the 
end of May f. It is believed that this fpecies is found more or 
lefs throughout Europe; is common in the pine forefts of Ruffia 
and Sidivia; but thofe of the laft are darker in colour, and lefs in 
izes 
SIZE of the Brambling. Upper parts of the body the fame 
as in that bird: over each eye a black ftreak, tending to the 
hind head; acrofs the back part of the head another, meeting the 
firft: on the wing coverts a bar of reddifh white, and a ferrugi- 
nous one below it: throat and breaft tawny: belly and rump 
white. 
This was met with off the coaft of fapan, and is in the collec- 
tion of Sir Fofeph Banks. It appears to be a variety of our 
Brambling. 
Le Pingon d’Ardennes a téte blanche, Brif. orz. iii. p. 154. A. 
HIS is of a paler colour than the common Brambling, and 
the head wholly white. 
+ Hift. des oif.—One of thefe was fhot near me, March 7, 1783. 
{ Mr. Pennant. 
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