
vo NATURAL HISTORY: 
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BIRDS of the SPARROW KIND. 



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Descenpinc from ‘the larger to’ the 
kinds, we come to this’ iclafs. of birds). 
chiefly in the neighbourhood of man, whom they feem 
to confider as their beft friend, filling his groves and 
fields with harmony, that elevates his heart to fhare 
their raptures.. All other birds are either mute or 
fereaming ; and it 1s only this diminutive tribe that 
shave voices equal to their beauty. Great birds feem 
to dread the vicinity of man, while thefe alone remain 
in the neighbourhood of cultivation, warbling in 
hedge rows, ‘or mixing with the’poultry, in the farm 
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/ They are remarkably brave; often fighting until 
one of them yields up:its jife with the victory. When 
young, they are fed upoh worms and infetts ; but, 
when grown up, they feed principally upon grain: 
As they devour great {warms of pernicious vermin, 
which deftroy the root before the vegetable is grown, 
they are particularly ufeful to the Eirretee and gard- 
ets . 
The beft vocal performers of this mufical tribe, 
-are, the nightingale, thrufh, blackbird, lark, red- 
breaft, blackcap, wren, Canary bird, linnet, gold- 
oo bullfinch, brambling, yellow hammer and 
fifkin. bate i . 
This clafs being too extenfive to be fully defcribed 
in fo fmall a volume, we fhall felect only a‘few of the 
molt curious, beginning with the BLACKBIKL. P 
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