OF BIRDS. 
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the bottom of a fack, perhaps not more than half 
a buflicl ; from this fmall beginning, the immenfe 
quantities were produced, which we have for a 
long time been fupplied with from South Ca¬ 
rolina. 
The Reed-Bunting, or Reed-Sparrow. 
This bird, as its name implies, frequents marfhy 
fituations; it makes its neft among the reeds, 
fufpended from four of them like a hammock, 
and a few feet above the water. The neft is 
compofed of the dry ftalks of grafs, and lined 
with the down of reeds. 
The male bird in the fpring, fings perched upon 
a reed, and by night as well as by day. 
It inhabits England, and mo'ft parts of Eu¬ 
rope, between Sweden, and Italy ; but in many 
countries it is migratory. 
The Whidah Bunting inhabits Angola, 
and other parts cf Africa; by fome it is called 
the Widow Bird. The two middle feathers in 
the tail are four inches long, very broad, ending 
in a long thread ; the two next are about thir¬ 
teen inches in length, broad in the middle, nar¬ 
rower at the ends, and pointed; and from the 
fliaft of thefe, proceeds another long thread, the 
other 
