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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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End of the Bill,to the End of th^ Tail, is fix Inches; of Whichthe latter is two and a half long. She lavs E 2 ufualiy i8 A Natural Hiftory of ufually four Eggs, but fometimes five, of awhitifh Colour, fpotted with a few, large,Reddifh-brown Spots, with a few fmall Specksand Screaks at the bigeft End of the fame Colour. of the Toungy honu to Order them^ &c. THE Chaffinch has commonly but fouryoung Ones at a breeding, you may takethem when they are about ten Days old; andfeed them as you do the Goldfinch or Linnet;they are hardy Birds that may be eafily raifed :And when they are out of Order, apply thefame Things as you do to thofe Birds whenficfc. Thefe Birds are taken with Chp-nets mgreat Plenty, in June and July^ efpeciallythe young Flight, which we call Branchers^when they come to Drink at their Watering-Place, &c. therefore tis hardly worth theTrouble of bringing them from the Neft,though fome that are bred under the fweetSong Chaffinch, fometimes prove very goodBirds. Of
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^^S^ ^r^e7z-^v^cL,^ck Englifli Singing-Birds. z^ Of the Green-finch^ Green-linnet : Or, as it is commonlycalled^ the Green-bird \ The Defcription and CharaBer. IT IS a little bigger than the Chaffinch^ of aftrong hardy Nature: They are frequent-ly kept in Cages, but not much efteemed forSinging; they are more valued for thpir Learn-ing to Ring the Bells in a Cage contrived forthat Purpoie : Tho fome of them, if broughtup from the Neil, will learn to Pipe, Whittle,and the Song of moft other Birds. At the Beginning of Winter, and in hardWeather, they gather in Flocks, and may betaking with the Clap-nets in great Numbers, The Marks of the Cock and Hen. HIS Head and Back are Green, the Edgesof the Feathers Greyifli; and the Mid-dle of the Back hath fomething of a Chefnut-colour intermixed: The Fore-part of his Head,Neck, and Breaft, quite down to his Belly,and Rump, are of a deep Yellowifli green ;the lower Belly inclining to Whicifti: The Borders I JO A Natural Hijlory of Borders of theo

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