9 S THE NATURAL HISTORY 
under part of the branches of trees, like the Tit- 
nioufe fpecies, with their backs downwards. 
The Sifkin will breed with the Canary-bird. 
The R E D-H E A D E D LINNET. • 
The bread is tinged with a fine rofe colour, is has a bar of 
■white on the wings. The quill, and tail feathers, are black, 
edged with white. 
They inhabit moff parts of Europe, breed in the 
north of England, and are often feen in flocks on 
the fea-coalf. 
This Linnet eaftly pairs with the Canary ; there 
are few birds more deferving our attention from 
the beauty of their plumage, the melody of their 
fong, or the agreeablenefs of their character. A 
gentleman pair’d a male bird of this fpecies, with 
a female Canary bird, which had been accultomcd 
to be releafed every day from its cage, but to re¬ 
turn regularly for its food, and to rooft. She 
made her neft in a neighbouring bufh, and brought 
her young ones with her to the window to feed. 
They had the mealy plumage of the Canary-bird, 
but the role-coloured brealt of the Linnet. 
In adorneftic Hate, this Linnet lofes the beau¬ 
tiful colours ot its head and bread ; it is very 
capable of imitation, and there was one at Ken- 
fington who having been taken in the nefl, and 
brought 
