SONG-THRUSH, OR MAVIS.’ If 
The third fort is called the fin all Heath- 
Thru 111, from its building upon heaths and 
commons ; he is of a darker colour than any 
other of the Thrufh kind, and bv fome valued 
for fmging ; but as none of the forts are com- 
parable to the common Song-Thrufh, nor fo 
well known, I fhall treat of the Song-Thrulli 
only ; which is a curious bird, as well for the 
great variety of his notes, as his long continu- 
ance in fong, which is, at leaf:, nine months 
in the year. In the beginning of the Spring, 
he fits on high trees, and fings mod tweedy, 
and . is as delightful a bird as a perfon can de- 
tire to keep in a cage ; fome of them, when 
they have been brought up from the neft, have 
learnt the Wood-Lark’s, Nightingale’s, and-' 
other curious birds fangs. 
DijTinguijJjing Marks of the Cock and Hen, 
The cock and hen of this kind are fo much 
alike in the colour of their feathers, and fhape 
of their bodies, that, notwithftanding I have 
carefully examined them divers times, I could 
not difcover any certain marks whereby to 
know the one from the other : yet thus mucii 
I have difcovered, which will appear to a nice 
obferver : — in a full -feathered bird, the dufky, 
or olive colour on his back, See. is ioincwhw 
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