OF BIRDS. 
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rous bird, cafily tamed, and its natural notes are 
verv pleafirig. 
Indeed it is often called the Virginian Night¬ 
ingale. They warble their melodious fongs in 
fhe mornings of the fpring, perched on the high- 
eft trees. They will fing in a cage, and are 
frequently brought to England ; in a ftatc 
of confinement, the male and female feem to 
* harbour fuc'n a refentment, that they will often • 
kill one another. 
They feldom are feen in greater numbers than 
three or four. When tame, they will learn to 
whiffle; but their natural note is faid not to be 
unlike that of the Englifh Thrulh. In fummer 
they haunt the fwatnps, in autumn retire to the 
fouth. 
The JAVA GROSBEAK or JAVA SPARROW. 
The plumage is dufky, the temples white, the beak red. 
It inhabits Afia, and Ethiopia, frequenting plan¬ 
tations of rice, to which it is very deftruefive. 
7'he plumage of this bird is exquifitely deli¬ 
cate, both from the harmony of the colours, 
and becaufe it is fo frnooth, that it appears like 
velvet, or rather like that fine powdery bloom 
which is found on fome plumbs. 
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