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oo THE NATURAL HISTORY 









‘The vesser Rep-weapep Linner much 
~ urefembles the laft fpecies. | : 
It is gregarious, the neft has bien found on an 
alder ftump, near a brook, about two or three feet 
from the ground; it was conftructed on the out. 
fide with dried ftalks of grafs, and other plants, ins 
_termixed with wool; the lining was hair, and fea 
‘thers. The bird was fitting on four egys, and-f 
attached to her neft, as to. fuffer herfelf to be 
‘taken in the hand, when releafed the did not 
_ forfake it. , | 
Their plumage is not fo ‘beautiful as that of i 
laft fpecies. 
They inhabit moft parts of eae but it 
fome they are migratory ; they appear in Germany 
in OGtober, and leave it-in February. Like the 
Titmoufe, they run along the under ss of i 
branches of trees. ; 
They become. very fat, and are a delicat 
‘food. a 
‘Tun RING SPARROW 
As grey, with pie eye-brows, the throat clay : 
Jour’d. 
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Tt ighcbits Europe, principally Germany, 1 
