zoo o%&ciTHOLogr. Bqo kTi. 



TheHenGHirapMgaisirf the bignefs and figure of our Throfik, and alike fleflry: 

 Hath a broad Head 3 a l^ill alfo broad, and not very long : A wide mouth when it 

 gapes : A black Bill ; Pretty great Eyes : A Tail fome three inches long, or fomething 

 more 3 neither do the Wings reach to the end thereof. The whole bird is clothed 

 with blackifh feathers, with which fome brown and pale green ones are mingled 3 yet 

 the colour in the Back is browner, in the Throat, Bread, and Belly a more delayed 

 green, and mingled like that of zThrofile. It is a fat and well-flelhed bird. The 

 Legs and Feet are black, in other particulars not different from the common rule. 



Book I. Part II. Sect. II. 

 Of [mall Birds. 



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Offmall Birds in general. 



I Mall Birds in general may be divided into flender-bill'd, which are for the moft 

 part Infe&ivorous} and fuch as have mort and thick Bills, which are for the 

 moft part Phytivorous, living upon the fruits and feeds of Plants. The firft 

 kind are commonly called fort-beak J d, the fecond hard-beak'd birds. 

 Of both kinds there are many fubalternate Species, viz. of flender-biU'd, Larks 

 * By hed is whole chara&eriftic notes are a very long * heel 3 earthy coloured feathers, mounting 

 daTof h the U P in the air > and fin g in g as tne y % 5 Swallows, whole marks area fhort Bill, a wide 

 back-toe. Mouth, Jong Wings, a forked Tail, (hort and imall Legs and Feet 3 fwift, andalmoft 

 continual flight : The Hedge-Sparrow, Redfiart, Robin-red-breafi, and many others 

 which we divide into two Clafies or ranks. The firft is of fuch whofe Tail is only of 

 one colour 3 the fecond of thofe whofe Tails are particoloured, either all the feathers 

 or the outmoft on each fide being in part white. 



Of thick-bill cl Birds the kinds are, the Sparrow, whole marks are an earthy or te- 

 ftaceous colour, a Bill a little crooked, feeding upon Corn, the Hawfinch, the Green- 

 finch, the Shel-appk or Sheld-dapple, the Linnet, the Chaff-finch, the Gold-finch, the 

 Siskin, Sec. whofe chara&eriftics we will give when we come to treat of them. 



An Addition concerning finging birds in general. 



AMerica ( as Marggravius obferves ) breeds more fair-coloured birds, but fewer 

 (inging birds than Europe. 



As we have diftinguifhed fmall birds in general into foft and hard beak'd, fo may 

 we alfo diftinguifh finging birds. The foft-beak'd are, The Mavw or Song-ThruJh$ 

 the Blackbird 3 the folitary Sparrow, which is a ftrangerto England 3 the Nightingale, 

 efteemed the Prince of all ringing birds, of the rearing and ordering of which we 

 {ball treat at large when we come to his Hiftory 3 the Skje-Larkj) the Wood-Larfathe 

 Tit-Lark^ the Robin-red-breafi 3 the Wren 3 the Blackcap 5 the Beccafigo 3 the Red- 

 flart •-, and the Hedge-Sparrow. 



The hard-beak cl are, The Canary bird 3 the Linnet 3 the Chaffinch 3 the Goldfinch 5 

 the Greenfinch 3 the Bulfinch 3 the Brambling 3the Hortulane 3 the Siskin 3 the Citril,the 

 Himgril 3 the Yellow-hammer. 



In all finging birds in general oblerve to keep them very neat and cleanly 5 and 

 therefore often to (hift the ftraw, mofs, gravel, or whatever elle you put in the bot- 

 toms of their Cages 3 and to give them frefti water, and meat often 3 for nothing 

 offends them more than the ftench of their own dung, or putrid meat and water. Be- 

 fides, if their Cages be foul, they will be apt to clog their Feet with their dung,which 

 often rots off their toes, at leaft caules the Cramp, Gout, and other infirmities. Al- 

 drovandus advifes to put in their Cages a piece of Pumice ftone, or old rubbiih, to 

 cleanfe and whet their Bills upon, which otherwife will be apt to grow blunt. 



All Birds ( faith he ) are wont to fwallow lomething out of the earth to cleanfe 

 their bodies 3 I rather think they ufe only to fwallow fome grit or gravel, to affift 

 them in grinding their meat in their Gizzards 3 and therefore it is needful to put fine 

 gravel in their Cages. In 



