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I have educated nettling linnets under the three 

 belt finging larks, the Jkylark^ ^oodlark, and tit- 

 lark, every one of which, in ftead of the linnet's 

 fong, adhered entirely to that of their refpective 

 instructors. 



When the note of the titlark-linnet * was tho- 

 roughly fixed, I hung the bird in a room with two 

 common linnet?, for a quarter of a year, which were 

 full in fong} the titlark- linnet, however, did not 

 borrow any paiTag'es from the linnet's fong, but 

 adhered ftedfaftly to that of the titlark. 



I had fome curiofity to find out whether an 

 European nettling would equally learn the note of 

 an African bird : I therefore educated a young lin- 

 net under a "jengolina -f, which imitated its Afri- 

 can mafter lb exactly, without any mixture of the 

 linnet fong, that it was impofiible to diftinguifh the 

 one from the other. 



* I thus call a bird which fings notes he would not have 

 learned in a wild irate ; thus by a Jky lark-linnet, I mean a lin- 

 net with the fkylark fong ; a nightingale-robin, a robin with 

 the nightingale long, &c, 



f This bird feems not to have been defcribed fcy any of the 

 ornithologies; it is of t\iz finch tribe, and about the fame fize 

 with our aberdavine (or fi&in). The colors are grey and 

 white, and the cock hath a bright yellow fpot upon the rump. 

 It is a very familiar bird, and fings better than any of thofe 

 which are not European, except the American mocking bird. 

 An inftance hath lately happened, in an aviary at Hamjled, of 

 a -jer.g'Jir.iis breeding with a Canary bird. 



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