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toc of fat, and if they were not killed jut at the 
proper time, they would die. _ 
The Romans had aviaries built with great mag- 
: nificence, and furnifhed with every convenience 
_ for the purpofe of feeding Ortolans, and other 
~ Dirds; and: the prefent Italians are in the fame: 
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Tue YELLO W BUNTING, or 
Phd ON HAMMER. : 
| * The tail ld are blackifh, ih two outer have a white: 
: me on their i inner web at the tip. 
tt sihatits euaige and is very commen in. 
? England, It builds a large flat neft on the cround,. 
in meadows, of hay and ftraw, mixed with mofs,._ 
dried leaves, and ftalks, very indifferent! ly put to- 
eis, and lined with hair, or wool. In the 
- liter itfrequents villages and barns; in the fum- 
mer it deftroys the Jarvee of the common cab= 
bige butterfly, - 
Tue RICE BUNTING 
; The plumage is dufky, the back of the neck reddifh, the 
flomach bl lack, the tail feathers tharply pointed. 
> be female is of a very different colour from the male, 
her plumage - is ereyy but her tail feathers are like the 
‘  Male’s, 4 
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