
: 7“ 
TOP WI EO Sens. 
rous bird, Baily tamed, and its natural notes. are 
very pleafing. | 
~ <Indeed it is often called. the Virginian Nicht. 
- ingale, They warble their ‘melodious fongs in 
the mornings of the fpring. +, perched on the high- 
elt trees, They will fing in a cage, and 2 are 
_ frequently brought to. England; in a. ftate 
of confinement, the male and feraille feem. to 
hatbour fuch a refentment, that they will often 
7 : _ kilo one another. 
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aes 

_ They fe] idom are feen i in oreater rani tiee than 
ba te or four. When tame, they will learn to 
whittle; but their natural note,is faid not to be 
“unlike that of the Englith T hruth, Tn fummer 
ey haunt’ the fwamps, in autumn retire to the 







Ta JAVA GROSBEAK oz JAVA SPARROW. 
| The ‘ici ~. the temples w hite the beak id 
Trinhabits Afi, and eaten frequenting plan‘ 
ons of rice, to which it is. very deftruGtive. 
q The plumage of this bird is exquifitely deli 
ie, both. from: the harmony. of the colours, . 
becaufe. it is fo fmooth, that it appears like 
, oF | rather like that fine errs bloom: 
s found on fome. plumbs. fo ee 
fig aes a tes ey On | 
