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tt of Thorns or Bryars in the Winter^ nigh 

 to which the Boys fet their Traps, and fo 

 catch them and fell them to the Merchants 

 for about Six Pence apiece ; by whom they 

 are brought for England ^ they are fomething 

 iefs than a Thrufh. 



There's Bird very injurious to Gotn, they 

 call a Blackbird I look on it a fort of Starl- 

 ing, for they cry fomething like them but 

 do not fing, are much what of the fame big- 

 nefs, have Flefli blackifh like theirs ; they 

 refort in great Flocks together, they are as 

 black as a Crow all over their Bills and all^^ 

 only fome of them have fcarlet Feathers in 

 the Pinions of their Wings^ Q^^ry^ Whe- 

 ther a diftindl Species ? 



They have a Lark nothing differing front 

 our common Lark 5 they have another Bird 

 which they call a Lark that is much larger, 

 as big as a Starling, it has a foft Note^ 

 feeds on the Ground ; and as I remember has 

 the Specifical Character of a long Heel, it 

 IS more inclined to yellow, and has a large 

 half Moon on its Breaft of yellow ; if it have 

 not a long Heel, Qu^re^ Whether a Species 

 of the Yellow-hammer ? 



They have a Martin very like, 6nly larger 

 than ours, that builds after the fame manner. 

 The honourable Co\* Bacon has remarked 

 for feveral Years, that they conftantly come 

 thither upon the Tenth of March dne or two 

 of them appearing before, being feen hover- 

 ing in the Air for a Day or two then go a- 

 way, and as he fuppofed returned with the 

 great Flock. The Colonel delighted much 

 in this Bird, and made like Pidgeon-holes 



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