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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ofihe Hen p^re not fo bright and lively ; and onthe Breaft and Back hath oblong dusky Spots ^where the Cock is of a fine Yeilov/, her Co-lours are of a fordid Green. The young Cock-birds, as foon as they are feathered, may beknown from Hens, by the fame Brightnefs intheir Colours. T*he Time mid Marnier of their Building. THE Green-bird has young Ones aboutthe Middle of May. She builds inHedges, and makes a large Neft; the out-iBoft Part of which confifts of Hay, Grafs,Stobble, &c. The Middle of Mofs; the in-snoft, on which the Eggs lie, of Feathers,Wool, Hair, &c, foft and pretty. She laysfive or fix Eggs, of a very faint Green-colour,fprinkled with fmall reddifh Spots, efpecially2t the blunt End. The Infide was an Inchand a Quarter deep, and four wide ; the wholeConipo(i:ion weighed eleven Drams; anotherJslefl I examined at the fame Time, differednot in Weight quite half a Dram, and hadDinjenfions equal likewife. The Bird fromthe End of his Bill to the End of the Tail is fix
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^C7im.e^ (2fcA, 7€c/v, an^S^, Englifli Singmg-Blrds. 31 fix Inches and a half, the Bill is half anInch ,• and the Tail two and a Qiiarter, ItsWeight is about fixteen Drams. of the Toungy honi) to Order them, &c. f^HE has five or fix young Ones at a Breed-;;^ ding; they may betaking at ten Daysold, and brought up with the lame Food andManagement as Linnets^ Or other Birds of theFinch Kind ; they are not very Tender, onlykeep them clean, and there is no Fear butthey will thrive. And after all, I cannot re-commend them for pleafant Cage Birds. Ifyou regard his Colours, he is as finely fea-thered as^^moft Birds; and in an Aviary makesas pretty a Show as the beft of them. He is feldom Sick; but when he is, givehim what you give Linnets or Chaffinches. Of the Common Linnet 5 7he Defcription and CharaUer. F^OR the Sweetnefs of its Singing, theLinnet is fo much efteemed, that by-many Perfons, he is thought to excel all fmallBirds: He has certainly a curious fine Note,little inferiour

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