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TWIT E. 
Defc rip l ion and Character. 
T HIS bird is, in colour and make, fome- 
thing like the Linnet, but lefs : it is a 
bird vaftly brilk and merry, that is always a 
finging ; therefore they hang him among other 
birds, to provoke them to ling. 
The cock has a very fhort afh-coloured bill, 
the legs black, and has a curious red fpot upon 
bis rump, which the hen hath not. 
It is a bird not known to breed in this coun- 
try ; they vifu fome parts of England in the 
W' inter, and go away again in the Spring ; but 
what place they come from, or whether they g 0 
(as they fay) to them is unknown : they are fa id 
to be very common in fome parts of France, and 
are called there by a name which with us fiani- 
nes the Teller Linnet; and they fay their eggs 
are like the eggs of that bird, but lefs. 
The bird-catchers take them as they do Lin- 
■ es, cc. Ihey feed upon canary and rape- 
and I V° 3 Piett > 7famiIia ib gentle-natured bird, 
by f0me ^koned well worth keeping. 
