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The Chinese Sparrows. 
T hese Birds are figur'd of their Natural Bignefs \ they are of the fi«c^-kind, 
tho' they have Bills of a larger, Size ; the Bills in both are very large, juft of the 
fame Shape and Bignefs, of a light bluilh Alh-colour ; the Head, in the firft Bird, 
which I fuppofe to be the Cock, is Black * in the fore Part of the Neck, the Black 
reaches down to the Breaft; the. Eye is of a dark Colour; the whole Body, Wings, 
and Tail, are of an equal Red-brown or dark Cinnamon-colour ; the Legs and Feet ^of 
an Afti-colour. 
T H E fecond Bird, which I fuppofe to be the Hen, hath a dark-colour'd Eye ; the 
Sides of the Head, round the Eye, the under-fide of the Neck, Breaft, Belly, and 
Covert-feathers under the Tail, are of a dirty White, a little inclining to a faded 
BlolTom-colour ; the Top of the Head, hinder Part of the Neck, Back, and , Wings, 
are of a dirty brownilh Afh-colour ; the upper Covert-feathers of the Tail, White ; 
.the Tail and greater Quill-feathers, are of a Black or Dusky-colour; the Legs and 
Feet are of a Flelh-colour. 
.1 drew thefe Birds at a Bird-Merchant's in WhitC’-Hart Tard in the Strandy who 
C2lYdthtm'Indmn Sparrows. They were in a Cage together, and leem'd to agree like 
Cock and Hen. Though ^Ibtn has figur'd this \vith a black Head, and a Bird different 
to what Fhave here placed with it, which he fays is thc'Hen ; I fhoiild not have re- 
peated AlbhY% Bird, had not this I call the Hen, been a Bird not yet deferib'd. Albm'% 
Cock differs from mine, in that it hath a broad black Stroke drawn from the Breaft 
downward, through the whole Length of the Belly, w’hich I could not difeover ; 
though I have, fince I made this Draught, had one of thefe Birds myfelf, and examin'd 
it narrowly to find this Mark, but Ibund the Belly wholly of the red-Riiffet-colour. 
I have been told thefe Birds are brought from China, I have given it Mr. AlbhYs 
Name, which I think not improper ; befides, a multiplicity of Names for the fame 
Thing, caufes much Confuflon in Natural Hiftory. See AlbhY% Figure in VoL i, 
Tlate 53. of his Hiftory of Birds, 
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