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be difcovered by their Breafis \ but the Cock is beft 

 known by the brownnefs of his Back and the white 

 in his Wing i t[iat is to fay, take your young Linnet 

 when the Wing-feathers are grown, and Ihetchout his 

 Wing, holding his body fafl: with the other hand i and 

 then obferve the white upon the fourth, hfth, and 

 fixth Feather *, if it caft a gliftering white , and the 

 white goes clofe to the Quil, this is a fure fign of a 

 Gock. 



Many are the Difeafes of this Bird, as the Ptifick, 

 known by his panting, flaring Feathers, lean Brealt, 

 and {pilling his Seeds up and down the Cage » and 

 this Difeafe happens for want of Water, or for want 

 of green Meat in the Spring : He is troubled alio 

 with Streins or Convulfions of the Breaft : Sonnetimes 

 he is afflided with hoarfnefs in his voice, being over- 

 ftrein'd in finging : he is fometimes melancholy , at 

 other times afflided with fcowring, of which there are 

 three forts s the firft is thin, and with a black or white 

 fubftance in the middle, not very dangerous > the fe- 

 cond is between a black and white, clammy and flick- 

 ing, this is bad *, but the third and laft is moft raorraK 

 which is the white clammy fcowring : The feveral 

 Cures I fiiall not here fet down for brevity fake, but re- 

 fer you to the care of the Bird-merchant. 



Of the GOLD-FINCH, or CHRIST- 

 M A S'F 00 Ufocaf/ed in Norfolk. 



THey are taken in great plenty about Michaelmof^ 

 and will foon become tame. The beauty of this 

 Birds feverally-colout'd Feathers is not much taken 

 notice of, becaufe they are fo common among us j but 



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