BA Pm CX. 
ground, and depofits five or fix bluifh eggs, marked with dark fpots. 
The wild note of this Bird is not admired, though they may be 
taught to whiftle any tune in a tame ftate, and are then much valued. 
There are feveral varieties of this fpecies, one of them in particular, 
is entirely black. Inftances are recorded of thefe birds, after being 
taken in full feather, in the courfe of three or four years becoming 
jet black, and then again recovering their former colours. 
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