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the bottom of a fack, perhaps not more than half 
abvthel; from this {mall beginning, the immenfe 
quantities were produced, which we have for a 
Jong time. been muting with from South Ca 
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: The Reep-Bunrine, or REED-SPARROWs 
This bird, as its name implies, frequents marthy | 
i Fons: it makes its neft among the reeds, 
a ~ fufpended from four of them like a hammock,. 
nda few feet above the water. The nett is. 
-compofed of the dry’ ftalks of grafs, and lined 
BY igs the down of reeds. 
eeEhe male bird in the pring, fings — upom 
Whe | “ areed and by night as well as by day. 
Tt inhabits England, and moit parts of Eve - 
_ tope, between Sweden,, and Italy ; but in pany 
I a? it is migtatoryy 7 






“i The Sina Buntine inhabits Angola, 
and other parts of’ Africa; by fome it is called: 
the Widow Bird. The two middle feathers in. 
the tail are four inches long, very broad, ending: - 
; Ma long thread; the two next are. about thir= 
teen inches in tenths broad in the middle, nar= 
Tower at the ends, and pointed; and from the 
-thaft of ae seems another om thread, the: 
~_ other: 
