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at two years old they are called Erifs •■> and thofe of 

 the firft year are called Branchers i when they are new 

 flown and cannot feed themfelves, they are called 

 fujhers s and thofe tiiat are brought up by hand, Ncjl- 

 lings. Now fince there are but few Canary- birds which 

 breed in England^ it being fo great a trouble to look af- 

 ter them, I (hall here infert nothing concerning the or- 

 dering when they intend or begin to build i what things 

 are neceifary for them when they begin to breed i how 

 toforder them when they have young ones i or how to 

 breed the young ones when taken out of the Neft : 

 Thofe who intend to be informed of every thing here- 

 unto belonging, may ealily be inftru<I^ed by applying 

 themfelves to feveral Germans in and about the City, 

 who make it their bufinefs to breed Canary-birds after 

 the beft (German) falhion. 



Of the BLACK-BIRD. 



A S fome do eftecm the Nightingale to be the beft 

 .ZJ Singing-bird in the World, fo in my opinion the 

 Blackcbird is the worft , yet they are as frequently kept 

 as their betters, and are in great eUimation amongll 

 the Vulgar h for no other reafon that I know, than for 

 the loudnefe and coarfenefs of his Song, as they are 

 Borilh in their Speech, and have little but rufticity in 

 th^ir Conditions. To be ftioit, he is better to be eaten 

 than kept, and is much fweeter to the Palate when 

 dead, than to the Ear when living. > 



She builds her Neft upon old Stumps of Trees by 

 Ditch-fides, or in thick Hedges. As they begin be- 

 times, that is, in the beginning of March, ( when ma- 

 ny times the Woods are full of Snow ) fo they breed 



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