314. 
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WHITE-EARED 
Be 
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method of catching them: they have no more to do: than to 
fupporta large hollowed gourd, the bottom uppermoft, on a ftick,- 
with a-ftring leading to. fome covered place, and ftrewing under’ 
it fome Millet; the little birds, haftening in-numbers to pick it 
up, are caught beneath the trap,..by the ftick being pulled away 
by the obferver at a.diftance. The females are faid to fing nearly: 
as well as the males. ‘They are pretty familiar birds, and, when 
once ufed to the climate, will frequently live five or fix years ins 
a cage. They have been bred in Holland by the fanciers of 
birds. 
From what has been.faid, the reader will think with me, that: 
it_is quite poffible that the two laft may be only one fpecies, -de=- 
fcribed in different periods of their changes... 
SBECK* mentions five fmall birds, which he takes to be” 
Pinchese- 
The firft had the head, back, and wing coverts, purple: the~ 
under fide of the body yellow: prime quills and tail fine blue:° 
the fecondaries green: on the ears a white fpot. 
The fecond like the former, but the back and tail purple. —- 
The third with 2 green head; and a purple breaft and tail. 
Fourth,, the breaft: of a light green: the head, and leffer wing~ 
coverts, brown. 
The fifth had the head, back,. wing coverts, and tail, of a fine’ 
deep brown:.the under fide of the body, and under wing coverts;, 
fine crimfon. 
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