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The Iwite. 



Numb. LXXIV. 



IT Is in Colour like the Linnet ^ but lefs, it has a fhort 

 Bill, the Legs blackifh j the Cock has a curious red Spot 

 upon his Rump, which the Hen hath not 3 it is a merry 

 briik Bird, that is always a fmging, therefore they hang 

 him. among other Birds, to provoke them to fingj they do 

 not breed in England that I know of, but come here in 

 Winter, and go away again in the Spring, but what place 

 they come from, or whither they go, to us is not known : 

 The Bird-catchers take them as they do Linnets^ ^c. They 

 eat Rape and Canary Seed, but love the Canary beft : It is 

 a pretty familiar, gentle natur'd Bird, well worth keeping, 

 I was told by a Gentleman, curious in flich Enquiries, that 

 the Twite is common in fome parts of France^ and is cal- 

 led there Petit Linotte, the lefler Linnet j and that its Eggs 

 are like the Eggs of that Bird, but lefs. 



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