

4 SE. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
: tridge, or Lapwing, in unde to wallead, it would 
flutter juit before i its enemy, counterfeiting lame= _ 
nefs, till it had drawn it toa confiderable diftance — 
‘from the-nefti > 3 try ¢ 
During the breeding feafon it has.a remake 4 
“flirt with its wings. 
The Hedge § Sparrow in the Series of winter, 
approaches barns, and threfhing floors, in order 
to pjck up corn, but this is not its natural 
_ food, it feeds. on chrifalis’s, page lice, and. other 
infects. _ 
~ Phe Hedge Sparrow is not fiigtelone and may 
be caught in almoft any trap, he may eafily be 
tamed, and by fome is valued for his fong, though 
it is not any thing extraordinary, it is plaintive, — 
and he fings often at a feafon of the year when 
other birds are filent. It is generally towards the 
evening that they fing the moft; they begin with 
the firt froft, and continue till a little time im 
the fpring: | : 
| A gentleman i in France put a Hedbe Sparrow: 
into an aViary,. with Canary Birds, Linnets, and | 
Goldfinches:;;. a Canary Bird feemed to take an ~ 
affection to it, and never quitted: it ; they. were: 
taken out, and put into.a cage together but made: 
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