Ants, Files, or Caterpillars i which through fullennefs 

 if he will not eat, then take him out, and upon the 

 point of a Stick (firlt opening his Billj give him four 

 or five gobbets one after another*, then turn him into 

 the Cage, ftrowing the bottom thereof with Egg and 

 minced Sheeps- heart mingled with fome Pilmires. 

 Thefe Nightingales that are taken at this time of the 

 year, will not fing till the middle oiO&ober^ and then 

 they will hold in fong till the middle of Jme : But 

 the Nightingales that are taken from the firll of j,4pril 

 to the twentieth, are the bed Birds for ScJng in the 

 whole Univerfe j and rhefc are taken with Trap cages 

 or Trap-nets, as th^Branchers aforefaid, in June^Julyy 

 and AugH^. Here obferve, that Neftlings nor Bran- 

 chers (except they have an old Bird to ting over them) 

 have not the true Song for the firft twelve months. 

 When you havefo tamed them that they begin to Cmh* 

 and Sweet with chearfulnefs, and record (bftly to them- 

 felves, it is a certain fignc that they eat, and then you 

 need not trQuble your felf with feeding them j but if 

 they fing before they feed, they commonly prove moft 

 excellent Birds : Thofe Birds that are long a feeding, 

 and make no Curring nor Sweetings are not worth the 

 keeping. If you have a Bird that will flutter and 

 bolt up his head in the night againft the top of the 

 Cage, keep him not, for he is not onely good for no- 

 thing, but his bad example will teach the beft of your 

 Birds to do the like. 



Now to the intent you may not keep Hens inftead 

 of Cocks, and fo not onely be at ufelefs charge, bur 

 be fruftrated of your expedtation, you (hall diltinguifh 

 their Sexes by thefe obfervations. The Cock in the 

 judgment of fome is both longer and bigger : others 

 fay the Cock hath a greater Eye, a longer Bill, and a 

 Tail more reddifh : others pretend to know them by 

 the Pinion of the Wing, and Feathers on the Head. 



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