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middle of the back inclining to chefnut. 
The fore part of the head, neck, breaft, quite 
down the belly aiid rump, are of a yellow 
•green. 
Food . — The fame as the chaffinch. 
Common LINNET. — This bird is faid to 
excel all the fmall Engliffi birds in Tinging. 
The note is curious ; and he can imitate the 
fbng of any other bird. The cock has a 
browner back than the hen, and more white 
in its wings. When the wings are full 
grown, fecond, third, or fourth feather, is 
white up to the quill. 
Food . — They ffiould be fed with feed ga- 
thered from the land where they are taken, 
mixed with a little bruifed hemp-feed. — 
When caged, give them a fmall quantity of 
Canary, and a few corns of hemp. If droop- 
ing, a little lettuce-feed,, and a fmall piece 
of liquorice or fatiVon put into their water. 
Chick-weed is alfo a great reftorative to the 
linnet. 
NIGHTINGALE. — The nightingale is 
mckoned the bell of fong-birds. In grown 
birds, the cock is dillingaiffied by its deeper 
and higher colours. In neftlings, when he 
has eaten, he gets upon the perch, and begins 
to tune to himfclf. 
Food . — Give him, three times a week, 
two or three meal-worms, or fpiders, to 
purge him. When his fat declines, give 
him 
