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The Yellow Headed Linnet, 
HIS Bird being of Kin to Linnets or Canary-Birds, I choofe to call it by this 
Name; I have heard them call’d Mexican Sparrows ; but I think it more of the 
Linnet-kind ; the Bill is moderately big, like the Bills of moft of our hard-bill’d Birds 
•who crack Seeds, of a whitifh or pale Fledi-colour; the Eye is of a Hazel-colour 
the Head and Throat are of a yellow Colour; from behind the Eyes, down the Sides 
of the Neck, are drawn brown Marks, growing wider towards their lower Parts, 
and falling into the Back j the hinder Part of the Head, upper Side of the Neck, 
Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a dirty Brown-colour, fpotted on the Neck and Back 
with dirty Spots, drawn downward; the greater or outer Quills, and the Feathers 
of the Tail darker than the Back, and upper Part of the Wings; the Bread:, Belly, 
Thighs, and Covert-feathers under the Tail, are of alight Clay-colour, the Bread and 
Belly fpotted, with dark brown Spots, drawn downward, which Spots begin on the 
lower Part of the Yellow on the Throat; the Legs and Feet are Brown, or of a dirty 
Flefh-colour. 
I drew this Bird at Sir Charles Wagers Houfe at Parfons-Green . The Print fhews 
the Bird of its natural Bignefs. 
A Cage of thefe Birds was found on board a Spanijh Prize, taken by an Engli/h 
Ship in the Weft Indies ; they are Natives of Mexico , the Ship in which they were 
found being bound from Vera Cruz to Old Spain . 
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