with bruifea Hemp-reed, wetting your Bread before Vou 

 mingle it with ihe meat. 



Being throughly tiedg'd,put them into a Cage where 

 they may have room enough, with two or three Pear- 

 ches, and fome Mofs at the bottom of the Cage, to keep 

 them cleans for otherwife they will be troubled with 

 the Cramp, and for want of delighting in themfejves 

 the finging will be fpoil'd. 



Bread and Hemp -feed is as good food for them as 

 can be given : and be mindful of furnifhing them ac 

 kali twice a week withfreQi water,that they may bathe 

 and prune themfelves therein, otherwife they will not 

 thrive. 



The fifth and M is the Heath-throfile, which is the 

 leaft we have in England, Laving z dark breaft Some 

 are of opinion that this bird exceeds the Seng-throfik 

 having better Notes, and neater Plume. ' - 



The Hen builds by the Heath-fide in a Furz-buffi, 

 or ftump of an old Haw-thorn, and makes not Shaw? 

 3nd Woods her haunt as other throjiles do. She begins 

 not to breed till the middle of ^^ri/ , and breeds but 

 twice in a year •, and if kept clean and well fed, will 

 iing three parts in four of the whole year. Their man- 

 ner of breeding is in: like-fort as the former. 

 ^ To know the Cock from the Hen, according to old 

 Country- judgment, is to chufe the top-bird of theNeif 

 which commonly ismoft fledg'd. Others think that to* 

 be the Cock which hath the largeft Eye,and moft fpec- 

 Kles on his breaft. Others chufe the Cock by the pinion 

 of his \^ ing, if it hath a very dark black that goes a- 

 crofs It i but a|)ove all, chufe him thus : If his Gullet 

 be vvhite with black ftreaks on each fide, his fpots on 

 his Breaft large and black, having his head of a light 

 Ihinmg brown, with black ftreaks under each Eye and 

 upon thepinion of the Wing ; thefe are the beft marks 

 thateverlobfeived. 



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