PLATE XIX. 
The Red Headed Linnet. 
This bud is very common and well known by the generality of the world, it is much 
admired for its fong, which is fweet and melodious. Thefe birds, like many others, are in their 
full beauty the third year, but when caged, and moulted, lofes the red on the head and breaft, which 
they never more recover. They build in furze about three feet from the ground, and their neft is 
eafily found, for whilft the hen fits, the male is frequently perched on fome twigs at a fmall diftance 
facing the nell, pouring forth his foft fong. He likewife feeds the female while (lie fits, their food 
confifts of any fort of fmall feeds. They lay five eggs, the neft is compofed of fmall dried roots 
lined with wool. After harveft, when breeding feafon is over, they flock together in vaft numbers 
on the lands, to feed on what remains. They fettle by hundreds on one tree, and are frequently fo 
numerous as to cover the whole top of it, where they jointly unite in a general chorus, and what is 
not a little fingular they periodically attend at fome clear ftream for their drink. 
Xo. VII. 
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