3 o2 GREENFINCH, Clafs it 



are yellow, the next green, the fartheft grey : the tail 

 is a little forked : the two middle feathers are wholly 

 dusky : the exterior webs of the four outmoft feathers 

 on both fides the tail are yellow. The colors in the 

 female are much lefs vivid than in the male. Thefe 

 birds are very common in this ifland : they make their 

 neftin hedges -, theoutfideiscompofed of hay or Hub- 

 ble, the middle part of mofs, the infide of feathers, 

 wool, and hair. They lay five or fix eggs of a pale 

 green color, marked with blood colored fpots. Their 

 native note has nothing mufical in it j but a late 

 writer on finging-birds fays, they may be taught to 

 pipe or whittle in imitation of other birds. 



This bird is fo eafily tamed, that it frequently eats 

 out of one's hand five minutes after it is taken, if you 

 have an opportunity of carrying it into the dark -, the 

 bird mould 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 flay upon the firft finger, 

 on which it was before placed, it climbs upon the fe- 

 cond, where it likewife continues, and for the fame 

 reafon. When this hath been nine or ten times re- 

 peated, and the bird ftroked and carefied, 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 

 bruifed feed out of your hand, and afterwards con- 

 tinue tame. 



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