144 green-finch, ov green-linnet. 
low ; and the feathers along the ridge of the 
wing are of a lovely yellow likewife. The co- 
lours of the hen are not fo bright and lively ; » 
and on the bread: and back hath oblong dufky 
fpots : where the cock is of a fine yellow, her 
colours are of a fordid green. The youm> 
cock-birds, as foon as they are feathered, may 
be known from hens, by the fame brightnefs , 
in their colours. 
Time and Manner of their Building. 
The Green-Bird has young ones about the 
middle of May. She builds in hedges, and > 
makes a large neft ; the outmefi part of which 
conlilts of hay, grafs, ftubble, &c. the middle 
of mofs, the inmoft, in which the esrgs lie, of 
feathers, wool, hair, &c. foft and pretty. She 
lays five or fix eggs, of a very faint green. » 
colour, fprinkled with fmall redilh fpots, efpe- 
cially at the blunt end. The infide was an 
inch and a quarter deep, and four wide : the 
whole compofition weighed eleven drams ; ano- 
ther neft I examined at the fame time, differed 
not in weight quite half a dram, and had 
dimenfions equal likewife. 1 he bird, from the 
end of his bill to the end of the tail, is fix 
inches -nd a half; the bill is half an inch ; and 
the tail two and a quarter. Its weight is about 
fifteen drams. 
