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the SINGING cf BIRDS. 
gunge is in man, and depend entirely upon the 
mailer under which they are bred, as far as 
their organs will enable them to imitate the 
founds which they have frequent opportunities 
of hearing* 
Mod: of the experiments I have made on 
this fiibject have been made with cock Linnets, 
which were fledged and nearly able to leave 
their neft, on account not only of this bird’s 
docility and great powers of imitation, but be- 
caufe the cock is ealily diftinguifhed from the 
hen at that early period, by the fuperior white- 
nefs in the winm 
O 
In many other forts of flinging birds, the 
male is not at the age of three weeks flo cer- 
tainly known from the female ; and if the pu- 
pil turns out to be a hen, 
■— — lb l omnis 
Effufus labor. 
Xne Greek poets made a fongfler of the rect/s, 
whatever animal that maybe; and it is remark- 
able that they obflerved the female was incapa- 
ble of finging as well as hen birds : 
E*T i/mv 01 rtriiysg ivbuirxovic^ 
ELv rctig yvvc&ilzv * S’ ortvx ivJ ; 
Comicorum Gra corum Sententi p. 442. 
Ed. Steph. 
I have indeed known an inilance or two of a 
