CiassIi GREEN GROSBEAK. 
compofed of hay or ftubble, the middle part of 
mofs, the infide of feathers, wool, and hair. Du- 
ring breeding-time, that bird which is not engaged 
in incubation, or nutrition, has a pretty way of 
fporting on wing over the bufh. They lay five 
or fix egos of a pale green color, marked with 
blood colored {pots. Their native note has nothing 
mufical in it; but a late writer on finging-birds 
fays, they may be taught to pipe or whiftle in 
imitation of other birds. | thee 
This bird is fo eafily tamed, that it frequently 
eats out of one’s hand five minutes after it is ta- 
ken, if you have an opportunity of carrying it into 
the dark , the bird fhould be then put upon your 
finger, which it does not attempt to move from (as 
being in darknefs it does not know where to fly) 
you then introduce the finger of your other hand 
under its breaft, which, making it inconvenient to 
-ftay upon the firft finger on which it was. before 
placed, it climbs upon the fecond, where it like- 
wife continues, and for the fame reafon. When 
this hath been nine or ten times repeated, and the 
bird ftroked and careffed, it finds that you do not 
mean to do it any harm; and if the light is let 
in by degrees, it will very frequently eat any bruif- 
ed feed out of your hand, and afterwards continue 
tame. 
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