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The Chinese Sparrow s. 
T HESE Birds are figur’d of their natural Bignefs; they are of the Fin ch k ind, 
tho’ they have Bills of a larger Size; the Bills in both are very large, juft of the 
fame Shape and Bignefs, of a light bluifh Afh-colour; the Head, in the firft Bird, 
which I fuppofe to be the Cock, is black; in the fore Part of the Neck, the black 
reaches down to the Bread; the Eye is of a dark Colour; the whole Body, Wings, 
and Tail, are of an equal Red-brown or dark Cinnamon-colour; the Legs and Feet of 
; &n Afti-colour. 
T HE fecond Bird, which I fuppofe to be the Hen, hath a dark-colour’d Eye; the 
Sides of the Head, round the Eye, the under-fide of the Neck, Bread, Belly, and 
Covert-feathers under the Tail, are of a dirty White, a little inclining to a faded 
Bloffom-colour; the Top of the Head, hinder Part of the Neck, Back, and Wings, 
are of a dirty brownifh Afh-colour; the upper Covert-feathers of the Tail, White; 
the Tail and greater Quill-feathers, are of a Black or Dusky-colour; the Legs and 
Feet are of a Flefh-colour. 
I drew thefe Birds at a Bird-Merchant’s in White-Hard Tard in the Strand\ who 
call’d them Indian Sparrows . They were in a Cage together, and feem’d to agree like 
Cock and Hen. Though Albin has figur’d this with a black Head, and a Bird different 
to what I have here placed with it, which he fays is the Hen; I fhould not have re¬ 
peated Albino Bird, had not this I call the Flen, been a Bird not yet defcrib’d. Albino 
Cock differs from mine, in that it hath a broad black Stroke drawn from the Breaft 
downward, through the whole Length of the Belly, which I could not difcoverj 
though I have, fince I made this Draught, had one of thefe Birds myfelf, and examin’d 
it narrowly to find this Mark, but found the Belly wholly of the red Ruffet-colour. 
I have been told thefe Birds are brought from China . 1 have given it Mr. Albino 
Name, which l think not improper; befides, a multiplicity of Names for the fame 
Thing, qiufes much Confufion in Natural Hiftory. See Albiris Figure in Vol. 2. 
Flate 53 . of his Hiftory of Birds . 
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