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ihing-of its Analogy to a Bird's Ear ; they (peak of w i 
Bone Egregie pimkojum : And Segerus fays there's a 
Dutius ad o£i$ ttfque petrofi-cavitatetn ptotenfu$ % plurimh* 
fibriliu Memhraneis anneiiahatur. But to return, this 
Mocking Bird having its Name from Mimicking, all o- 
ther Birds in finging is. .a wonderful mettled Bird, bold 
and brisk, and yet feems to be of a very tender Con- 
futation, neither finging in Winter, nor in the midft of 
Summer, and with much difficulty are any of them 
brought to live in England. 
The Red Mocking is of a duskifii red, or rather 
brown * it fings very well,, but has not fofbft a Note as; 
the gray Mocking Bird. 
Of Virginia Nightingale,or red Bird,there are two forts, 
the Cocks of both forts are of a pure Scarlet, the Hens 
of a Duskifii red • I diftinguifli them into two forts, for 
the em has a tufted Cops on the Head, the other is 
foiooth feather'd : I never faw a tufted Cock with .a 
foeoth headed Hen, or on the contrary $ they general- 
ly refbrtiog a Cock and Hen together, and play in a 
Thicket 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 fome- 
thing lefs than a Thrufh. 
There's a Bird very injurious to Corn, they call a 
Blackbird ; ! look on it a fort of Starling, for they cry 
fbmething like them but do not fing, are much what of 
the fame bignefs, have Fiefh blackifn like theirs ; they 
refort in great Flocks together , they are as black as a 
Grow all over their Bills and all only ibme of them 
have fcarlet Feathers in the Pinions of their Wings, Queer e 
whether adiftin6t Species. 
They have a Lark nothing differing from our com- 
mon Lark ; they have anothei L^rd which they call a 
Lark that is much larger, as big as a Starling, it has a 
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