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hour or more to keep them warm, that the meat may the better nourifh them 5 there- 

 fore do you alfo when you have fed them cover them up warm. I approve beft of 

 the neftlingbirdby reafon of histamenefs and familiarity with his Keeper, which is 

 the chief pleaiure of a bird. For if a bird be not tame, but extraordinarily wild and 

 buckiih, there is no pleaiure in feeding or hearing of him ling, being apt upon all 

 occafions to bruife himfelf, and to forfake his finging when moft defired. 



Chap. XIII. 



Tl;e Bird called CitA at Vienna h Verzellino^Rome; hi Latine, Thraupis 

 Sc Citrinella. 



N thefhape of the Head and whole body it is very like to a Unmt. The Head 

 and Back green : The Rump of a yellowiih green : The hinder part of the Head 

 and Neck afh-coloured. [ In a bird that I defcfibed at Rome, the top of the 

 Head,the upper fide of the Neck and the Shoulders were particoloured, of a yellowifll 

 green and dark brown. ] The nether furface of the body is green, but about the Vent 

 it is whitiih. The upper part of the Bread and the Belly in the Male birds is of a 

 lovely yellow. The Tail is 2 ~ inches long, and black, but the extreme edges of the 

 feathers are green. The quil-feathers of the Wings are of the fame colour with the 

 Tail : The lefler rows of Wing-feathers green. [In thofe birds I defcribed at Rome 

 the tips both of the quil-feathers, and alfo of the fecondary feathers of the Wings 

 were white. ] 



The Bill is hard, of a dusky or livid colour, having (harp edges, thicker and 

 fhorter than the Siskins [yea, in proportion to its body lhorter and thicker than the 

 Linnets or Greenfinches Bill : ] The upper Chap equal to the lower. The Tongue as 

 mChaffinches : The Feet whitiih or flem-coloured, with blackifh Claws. The Guts 

 long, ilender, and rolled up together. 



It is nurfed up in Cages for the fake of its finging. At Vienna in Aufifia We faw of 

 thefe birds to be Ibid, brought out of Stiria. It is frequent about Rome. 



It differs from the Shkjn and Serin, 1. In its afh-coloured Neck : 2. In that the 

 whole nether fide of its body is green. 3. That it hath no fpots in the fides. Olina. 

 attributes to it a Tail a little forked 3 which we alfoobferved in a bird we defcribed 

 at Rome. 



Bellonim efteemsthis bird to be theThraupis of Arijiotle, called in French, Tdriri. 

 It hatches feven or eight Eggs at one fitting. 

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Chap. XIV. 



Thehird called Hirngryll at Vienna, Serinus Gefnerijldro^ libii 8iCap.io* 



THe Back of this isfomethingred, the middle parts Of the feathers being fpot- 

 ted with black, as mtheYellote-hammer. The Head is yellow, of a deeper 

 colour in the Males, and paler in the Females. The Rump from green in* 

 clines to a lovely yellow. The Breaft is of a yellowiih green : The Belly white : The 

 fides variegated with oblong, black fpots. 



The Tail is black, the outmoft edges of the feathers being green, confifting of the 

 umal number of twelve feathers. The prime feathers of the Wings are of the fame 

 colour with the Tail. The tips of the interiouf feathers of the fecond row of the 

 Wing are white 5 of the other leflfer Wing-feathers green. 



The Bill is Ihorter and ftronger than in the Citrinella, {harp-pointed. *f he upper 

 Chap fomething prominent : The Tongue like the Chaffinches: The Feet dusky 3 the 

 Claws black. The like cohefion of the outer and middle toe at bottom as in other 

 fmall birds. The Guts are fmall, and have many convolutions. 



Thefe Birds alfo are kept in Cages for their finging: We faw of them to be fold atP/- 

 tnna in Auftriajjr ought out of Stiria. This little bird (faith Gefner) for its rare muficaf 

 finging is preferred before all others of this kind, even the Citrinelk, 



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