. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . are mofs, liverwort, and wool, curioufly in-terwoven, the infide is lined with a thick bed of the fofteft neft is not fufpended from a bough as is ufual with fome of thetribe, but is built be
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . are mofs, liverwort, and wool, curioufly in-terwoven, the infide is lined with a thick bed of the fofteft neft is not fufpended from a bough as is ufual with fome of thetribe, but is built between the forked branches of low wood, aboutthree feet from the ground : they generally contain from ten to (qvcii-teen or even twenty eggs of greyifh colour, fpeckled with pale red-brown. Thofe birds are moft frequent in gardens and orchards, to whichthey do much injury by devouring the tender (hoots; they arevery active, and fly to and fro with great facility, or run upand down the branches in every direction. The parents and theirolFspring remain together the whole winter, but feparate in thefpring *. The male has more of the rofe colour than the female; in theformer however it is fubjedt to much variation. * The young follow the parents the whole winter ; and from the ilimnefs of theirbodies, and great length of tail, appear, while flying, like fo many darts cutting the air, PLATE. PLATE XVIL LOXIA ENUCLEATOR, Pine Grosbeak. Passeres. Bill conic, pointed. Noflrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrong, convex above and below, very thick at the fmall and round. Tongue as if cut ofF at the end. Toesplaced three before and one behind. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Bill ftout at the bafe, the upper mandible hooked at the tip; Noftrilscovered vi^ith recumbent feathers. Head, neck, breaft, and rump,rofe-coloured crimfon. Back and leffer vising coverts black, edgedwith reddifh; greater wing coverts black, tipt with white 5 quillsblack; fecondaries have the outer b
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