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To have the benefit of its song fully, it is well to keep 

 it in rather a small cage, say about ten inches long, and 

 hight and depth in proportion, with flat top. Its Food 

 is to be summer rape and canary seed, an equal quan- 

 tity, and plenty of green food. It must have water for 

 bathing and plenty of dry gravel on the bottom. 



The general disorders of the linnet are costiveness 

 and epilepsy, in which case they may be treated as we 

 have already described under the head of disorders. 

 They will, however, seldom take sick, and generally live 

 from eight to ten years. 



returned, entered boldly within the cage, and supplied the 

 wants of their brood as before, and towards evening actually 

 perched on the cage, regardless of the noise made around 

 them by several children. This continued for several days, 

 when an unlucky accident put an end to it. The cage had 

 been again set on the outside of the window, and was unfor- 

 tunately left exposed to a sudden and heavy fall of rain ; the 

 consequence was, that the whole of the young were drowned 

 in the nest. The poor parents, who had so boldly and inde- 

 fatigably performed their duty, continued hovering round the 

 house, and looking, wistfully in at the window, for several 

 days, and then disappeared. 



