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making out fo'metlnng like the fong of her fpe- 
cies , but thefe are as rare as the common lieu’s 
being heard to crow. 
J rather fufpeft alfo, that thofe Parrots, 
Magpies, 8cc. wliicli either do not fpeak at all, 
or very little, are hens of thofe fpecies. 
I have educated neftling Linnets under the 
three bell hinging Larks, the Sky-Lark, Wood- 
Tyark, and Tit Lark j everyone of which, in- 
stead of the Linnet’s fong, adhered entirely to 
that of their refpefXive inilructers. 
When the note of the Tit lark-Linnet * was 
thoroughly fixed, I hung the bird in a room, 
with two common Linnets for a quarter of a 
year, which were full in fong : the Titlark- 
Linnet, however, did not borrow any paifages 
from the Linnet’s fong, but adhered flcdfalfly 
to that of the Tit-Lark. 
I had iome curiolitv to find out whether an 
European nefiiing would equally learn the note 
of an African bird ; 1 therefore educated a 
■young Linnet under a vengoiina f, which imi- 
* * bius call a bird which lings notes he would not have 
learned in a wild ftate : thus by a Skylark-Linnet, I mean .1 
Linnet with the Sky-Lark long; a Nightingale-Robin, a 
Rohm with the Nightingale’s fong, See. 
t This bird feems riot to have been deferibed by any of 
~ oin:t -li°lugifts. ; it is of the Finch tribe, and about the fame 
>-c with our Aberdivinc (or Siikin). The colours are grey 
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