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... kept in cage, fxngs all the and fummer, at leaft four or five months in the year. He is a flout hardy bird ; and, his own natural note, inay taught to whiftle a great many tunes. When wild in the fields, he feeds promifcuoufly upon berries and infc&s. He ...

... shall be told that birds may taught the notes of different species, and that bulfinches and starlings, which possess no natural notes American Museum, July 1787. The poets are mistaken in giving the bulfinch a song. Thomson says the Mellow bulfinch answers ...

... out just at the present moment. The inquest disclosed some other matters, which were not merely inferences; and these I naturally noted with care, in view of anything else that might ensue. It disclosed, for instance, that my wretched victim's name was Ralph ...