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Title: A natural history of English song-birds : and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing : to which are added, figures of the cock, hen and egg, of each species, exactly copied from nature
Year: 1737 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar Albin, Eleazar
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Publisher: Cambridge : British Antarctic Survey Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater-noster-Row, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History
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ch 1 2 in 6o A Natural Hijlory of in your Traps, feed and order them as you do th^ Nightingales. Of the Red.Pole. nhe Vefmption and CharaBer. THE Red-Pole is a very fmall, but anexceeding pretty feathered Bird : TheHead and Bread of the Cock are of a fineRed : The Hen has a red Head likewife,but not of fo bright a Colour,- tis not avery fine Bird for finging, but has a prettychattering Sort of a Song^ I cant call itvc.y melodious, yet they are often kept inGages, and eat the fame Sort of Seeds asthe Linnet or Chaffinch. We are not furethat thefe Birds build in England 5 they arefound here in Winter, but go away againin the Spring, I never faw or heard ofany of their Nefts being found 5 I rather be-lieve they come to fliun the Cold, as theAberdiviney Tvpite^ and fome other Birds do.They are taken as they Q2itQh Linnets, Gold-finches^ and other fmall Birds. Mr. WiUlughhy has not the Red-Pole in his CoirIcftion, defcribed by that Name, or anyother that will exadly anfwcr ; but I be-lieve
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2ie<6-J^€r/^ ^^c/c, cu^u/^jFZe^. Englifh Smgtvg-Birds. ci lieve it to be the fame with what he callsth^ Leffer Red headed Linnet^ bis Defcrip-tion of that agreeing in many Particularswiththis Bird, which is as follows: This, fayshe, is Icffer than the precedent, meaning theGreater Red-headed Linnet^ which he makesleiTer than the common, and will agree very .well with the Size of the Red-Pole 5 theBack coloured like the common Linnet*^ theForehead adorned with a remarkable flii-ning red Spot 5 the Bill like that of theGreat Red Linnet^ but lefs ^ the Breaft red 5the lower Belly white ^ the prime Feathersof the Wings and Tails dusky 5 the Tailabout two Inches long, and fomethingforked 5 the outmoft Borders of the Wingand TailFeathersround are white; the Legsand Feet are dusky 5 the Claws black andlong, for the Bignefs of the Bird, but theLegs very fiiort. In this Kind the Female alfo hath a Spotot? her Head, but more dilute than thatofthe Cock, and of a Saffron Colour. Of 6l a Natu

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