


208 THE NATURAL HISTORY | 
: weather was then fine; but it foon changed, 
by the gth of Schtember, fledges were ufed. 
At other time they have been known to tt : 
later, though the weather has fot been very mild; 
it was judged from thence that no very fever 
weather would foon happen. 
They breed two or three times in the feafon: 
the male affiduoufly attends upon the femalé whilft P 
fhe fits, and fhews the tendereft folicitude for her, 
_ and for their young, attacking with great fpirit any 
bird that approaches the neft. Still there have been 
inftances where, in confequence of an a accidental 
- derangement, this affeCtion feems to have Va 
_nifhed.. One of their little ones, juft capable of 
flying, fell from the neft upon the window ills 
the parents entirely negle€ted him: finding hime 
felf thus abandoned, he exérted | his powers, and 
in three quarters of an hour-began to fly. A nef 
was taken with all the young from the upper cor 
ner of a window, and laid upon the window fill; - 
the parents flying backwards and forwards, and 
frequently» vifiting the fpot where their neft was, 
~ muft have feen their young, and heard. their cries, 
but they fhewed them no attention. | 
They live on infedts, and feed their young when 
they can fly, on the wine ; they catch the infels 
flying, and if they. fee one on a wall, they brag 
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