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fides his Song, his fine Feathers are enough 

 to recommend him: A lovely Yellow adorns 

 his Head, Throat, Breaft, and Belly ; his 

 Back and Wings are pretty much like the 

 Linnets. The Hen is of a Paler-colour all over 

 her Body, and the Parts that are of a fine 

 Yellow in the Cock, in the-Meni ^^U ($ % 

 dirty Green. • 



' Thefe Birds build upon the Ground, at the 

 Side of a River, Pond, orBroofc; they make 

 a large flat, ordinary Nell ;; with Mofs, dry'd 

 Roots of Grafs, Weeds, 6*^. with Horfe Hair 

 intermixed, more of the latter than I ever 

 obferved any other Bird to make Ufe of She 

 lays fix or feven white Eggs, yained and 

 fpotted with Black. Her young Qnes ai\e 

 ufually fit to take by the Beginning of My; 

 you may let them be ten or twelve Days old 

 bef3re you take them. Feed them with Flefh 

 Meat minced very fine, as you prepare it 

 for other fmall Birds; or you may bring 

 them up with the T^//*, or //'W-/(^rfe*j Meat ; 

 they will eat likewife Worms cut in fmali 

 Pieces, which Food agrees very well with 

 them. 



Thefe Birds are common every where in 

 England'^ for the moft Part, they abide on the 

 Ground, feeking their Food, there of Worms, 

 Seeds and other Things. 



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