. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . plenty, and laid loose and flat. On this bottom thesides and brim of the nest are formed entirely of roots,the larger and stronger placed on the outside, the smallerand finer within. They are warped and entangled to-gether with muchl abour, but being of an hard woodynature, they close so ill together, that the light shinesthrough every part of the nest. The lining consists of very fine roots, amongst w
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . plenty, and laid loose and flat. On this bottom thesides and brim of the nest are formed entirely of roots,the larger and stronger placed on the outside, the smallerand finer within. They are warped and entangled to-gether with muchl abour, but being of an hard woodynature, they close so ill together, that the light shinesthrough every part of the nest. The lining consists of very fine roots, amongst whicha few black hairs are mixed. In this nest was six eggs, white, with a faint cast ofblue, marked with pale red spots, and brown zigzagscratches, as figured on the plate; by this mark alonethe eggs of the Twite are distinguished from those ofall the other linnets; all the rest being marked withspots only, these with spots and scratches. The Twite, like the rest of the linnets, feeds on theseeds of plants, particularly those of the aggregatedowny flowers. In winter they assemble in flocks,mixing with other small birds; and being caught, soonbecome tame and familiar. * Rhamnus 2 A 35FRINGILLA CANARIA. Syit. Nat. 321. THE CANARYBIRD, PLATE XXXV. A he Canarybird, though not originally a British spe-cies, has so long been propagated in this kingdom, thatit cannot properly be omitted in an History of BritishSong Birds. At what time they were first introducedinto England is not exactly known. Gesner, who wrotein 1585, makes mention of them; and Aldrovandus,in his Ornithology, printed, at Frankfort, in the year1610, gives the first good description of them. 2. p. 355. What colour they are in their original native coun-try, is not clearly ascertained. Writers seem to concurin supposing them to be green and yellow, and to beara near resemblance to our siskin, or aberdavine. Al-drovandus, in the place above cited, describing theCanarybird from Gesner, says, Avis est
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