
OF SAND Boe oe 
to whiftle in the fame loud, and uncouth man 
nen a 
This tics. feems to “ of an affetionate 
character, and capable of attachment : one 
: which had been tamed, efcaped from its cage, 
and lived ina wild ftate for more than a years 
upon hearing the voice of the girl who had taken 
care of it, it returned to her again, Itis related 
“that when they have been taken from thofe who 
have been accuftomed to feed them, that feveral 
have been known to pine away, and die of grief, 
There is a ftory told of one that is hardly to be — 
believed; his cage is faid to have been thrown | 
| down by fome dirty and rag coed people; the bird 
7 did not feem ver y much Sie at the time,” but it 
never faw any mean, fhabby perfon afterwards — 
without being feized with convulfions, and at 
length died in one of thefe fits, about eight months 
after the accident. ae 
| The following inftance is related of their 
__affe@ion to one another : four young Bullfinch’s 
‘ of the fame neft were reared together, the three 
, ftrongeft, as foon as they could feed themfelves, . 
_ affifted in feeding the {malleft, who was hot yet 
1 capable of providing for itfelf, - 
HS The male and female, after the breeding fea 2 
i Ls is over, continue to fly together. 
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