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 ing, which will foon be perceived in Neft- 

 lings bv their recording. This is all that 

 is needful concerning the Tit-Lark. 



The Robln-Red-Breail. 



TH E next to the Wood- Lark, in my 

 Opinion, for a Song-Bird, is the lit* 

 tie Robin-Red-Erea(^ ; he fmgeth very 

 iweetlv, and I have known manv toEfieem 

 him little inferiour to the Nightingale. I 

 do not know but that he ought to have as 

 great Edeem as he ; but Plenty of any Bird 

 n:akes thern not valued, tho' never \o good 

 it its Kind. 1 his Bird isfeen in the Win- 

 ter, upon the Tops and Roofs of Houfes, 

 and upon old Ruins, on that Side mod: cora- 

 nijnly that the Sun rifeth and ihineth in the 

 Morning, or under fome Covert, where the 

 Cold and Wind may not pinch him, for he 

 is but a tender Bird. We con^monlv put 

 them into Nightingales or Wood-Larks 

 Cages, only cloferwier'd ; they breed ve- 

 ry early in the Spring, and commonlv three 

 times in the Year, in ^-r//, May an'dJiVVf; 

 they make their Ned with a dry greenidi 

 JV'iof^, and quilt it with a little Vvool and 

 Hair ; they have dve or fix young Ones 

 at a time, axid feldom iefs than four : They 

 build in fome old Hay-Houfe, or Barn, or 

 Rick of Hay or Corn, or Banks towards 



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