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whittle in the fame loud, and uncouth man¬ 
ner. 
This fpccies feems to be of an affe&ionatc 
character, and capable of attachment: one 
which had been tamed, efcaped from its C3gc, 
and lived in a wild ftate for more than a year; 
upon hearing the voice of the girl who had taken 
care of it, it returned to her again. It is related 
that when they have been taken from thofe who 
have been accuttomed to feed them, that fevcral 
have been known to pine away, and die of grief. 
There is a ftory told of one that is hardly to be 
believed; his cage is faid to have been thrown 
down by foine dirty and ragged people ; the bird 
did not feem very much hurt at the time, but it 
nevci faw any mean, fliabby perfon afterwards 
vtithout being feized with convulfions, and at 
length died in one of thefe fits, about eight months 
after the accident. 
I he following inflance is related of their 
affection to one another : four young Bullfinch’s 
ot the fame nett were reared together, the three 
ttrongeft, as foon as they could feed thcmfelves, 
aifitted in feeding the fmalleft, who was not yet 
capable of providing for itfclf. 
The male and female, after the breeding fea- 
fon is over, continue to fly together. 
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