PLATE LV. 
The Tit-Larks 
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.A, RE fummer vifitors to us, and ufher in the Teafon with their tuneful and melodious note. They 
are feldom caged, but are principally kept by thofe who breed Canary birds in any quantity, for 
the purpofe of teaching them their note : for the fame reafon the Nightingale is kept, and by this 
plan, the Canaries unite their diflFerent notes and excel all other birds in fong. They breed three or 
four times in a feafon, laying five eggs. Their neft is compofed of dried grafs lined with the fame, 
and intermixed with hair ; it is generally built by the fide of a bank, or foot of fome tree. They 
feed on all kinds of fmall feeds, and are particularly fond of hemp feed ; though to keep them con- 
ftantly on that food alone, would Ihorten their lives. It is fomewhat fingular in thefe birds, that 
they make choice of the top branch of fome high tree, from whence they foar to a great height, 
continuing their fong till they again defcend and refume their primary ftation. It is difficult to diftin- 
guifli the male from the female. The moll certain mode is by their fong, or by taking them early in 
the fummer, as the male bird comes firft. They are not numerous,— thofe we have, are found by 
the fides of woods, &c. 
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