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* The Brazilian Jacarini of Marggrave. 



IT is of the bignefs of our Goldfinch : Hath a thick, afh-coloured Bill : Afh-co- 

 loured Legs and Feet, with four Toes fituate after the ufual manner. The whole 

 Body is covered with black feathers, but fhining with a glofs like polifhed fteel. The 

 Wings withinflde are white. The Eyes are blue, and behind each a large hole in- 

 ftead of Ears. This Bird being of the bignefs of a Goldfinch, and having a Bill not 

 unlike it, not knowing better to difpofe of it,I have inferted in this Chapter,although 

 it agrees not in colour either with the Goldfinch, or any other European Bird, that I 

 know, of this bignefs. 



Chap. XL 

 Of the Linnet. 



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Of the Linnet in general. 



THe Chara&eriftic notes of this kind are, i. Afize of body fbmething lefs than 

 a Chaffinch : 2. A teftaceous or earthy colour, mixt of cinereous and dusky 

 or brown : 3. A Tail a little forked : 4. A peculiar colour of the outmoft 

 feathers of the Tail, w"». brown, with white borders or edges: 5. A fweet note. 

 Of Linnets we have obferved four forts m England: 1. The common: 2. The 

 greater red: 3. The leffer red. 4. The Mountain Linnet. 



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The common Linnet : Linaria vulgaris. 



r 



r T weighs about an ounce : From the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail being half 

 [' a foot long j between the tips of the Wings fpread forth ten inches broad. Its 

 Bill is half an inch long, thick, ftrong, black above, white underneath. The Tongue 

 is as it were cut off : TheNofthrils round : The Head particoloured of cinereousand 

 black \ the Back of black and reddifh, the middle part of each feather being black, 

 the edges or outrides in the Head cinereous, in the Back reddifh. The Breaft is white: 

 The lower Belly about the Vent yellowifh. The region of the Craw or bottom of 

 the Gullet is of a lovely red, the edges of the feathers being yellowifh. Each Wing 

 hath eighteen quil-feathers, all black but the edges, which in the exteriour are whi- 

 tifh, in the interiour red. The foremoft feathers of the fecond row are black, the 

 edges of the interiour, or thofe next the rife of the Wing red. The lefler covert- 

 feathers about the ridge or bafe of the Wing are red. The Tail is fomewhat forked, 

 its two outmoft feathers being two inches and a quarter long 5 the middle only two: 

 Of the middle two the borders or edges are red, of the reft white. The Tail confifts 

 of the ufual number of twelve feathers. It delights to feed upon Line-feed, whence 

 Gefxer, in imitation of the French, ( who call it Linote} impofed on it the name of 

 Linaria. It feems not to have been defcribed or mentioned by the Ancients : How- 

 beit, Bellomm makes it to be the lEgithus of Arijiotle. It is kept in Cages with us 

 forthefweetnefsof itsfinging^ wherein, in my judgment, it excels all other fmall 

 birds. It feeds upon Canary feed, Panic, Millet ( whence alio it is by fbme called 

 Miliaria ) Rape-feed, Cole-feed, and Hemp-feed. But whatever feed it eats it firft 

 *i.t. hulls or * decorticates it with its Bill, that it may feed only on the pulp. But Hemp-feed 

 pills it. q t k at we ma y note t h at by t h e by ^ makes birds that feed upon it fo fat that it either 



kills them, or takes from them all courage and lift to ling. Olina faith, that the Linnet 

 builds in trees that are not very tall,and lays three or fourEggs. We have obferved it to 

 build in black or white thorn bu(hes,or Furze-bu(hes.Mr.J i F//feg% aicribes to the Feet 

 of this bird an obfcure dusky or blarkifh colour 5 Olina a middle colour between flefh- 



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