«J4 THE NATURAL HISTORV 
tridge, or Lapwing, in order to miflead, it would 
flutter JufL before its enemy, counterfeiting lame- 
nefs, till it had drawn it to a confiderable diftance 
from the nrit. 
During the breeding feafon it has a remarkable 
flirt with its wings. 
The Hedge Sparrow in the feverity of winter, 
approaches barns, and threfhing floors, in order 
to pick up corn, but this is not its natural 
food, it feeds on chrifalis’s, plant lice, and other 
infe&s. 
The Hedge Sparrow is not fufpicious, and may 
be caught in almoif any trap, he may eafily be 
tamed, and by fome is valued for his fong, though: 
it is not any thing extraordinary, it is plaintive, 
and he fings often at a feafon of the year when 
ether birds are filent. It is generally towards the 
evening that they fing the mod ; they begin with 
the firft froft, and continue till a little time in 
the fpring. 
A gentleman in France put a Hedge Sparrow 
into an aviary, with Canary Birds, Linnets, and 
Goldfinches ; a Canary Bird feemed to take an 
affedlion to it, and never quitted it ; they were 
taken out, and ppt into a cage together, but made 
no jnelL 
