THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The BULLFINCH. 
Its legs, wings, and tail arc black; .the lowed feather! 
of the tail, and the binder wing feathers, white. 
It inhabits the woods in Europe, and diiTemi- 
nates the fervice trees. The male is red undci- 
neath, the female dufley afh colour. They are 
frequent in Ruffia-and Siberia, and caught for the 
table. 
It may be taught to whittle any tune, and fel- 
dom forgets what it has learnt; it will become 
fo tame as to come when called, perch on its 
matter’s {boulder.,-and whittle a tune when com¬ 
manded. 
There have heen feveral inftances of their be¬ 
coming quite black. 
The female Bullfinch may be taught to pipe as 
v'cll as the male. It has been faid, that a gen¬ 
tleman who had whittled fome tunes to a Bull¬ 
finch, was very agrealdy furprifed to hear the 
Bullfinch imitate the Cong-, but introducing at 
the fame time fome elegant variations, which were 
fc well executed, that the teacher acknowledged 
bin fetf to he fur pa fled : Though on the other 
hend it has been obferved, that a Bullfinch who 
had only heard tome ploughmen whittle, Icaint 
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