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Of the ST A KLING. 



THis Bird is generally kept by all forts of people a- 

 bove any other bird for whiftling i bat their grea- 

 tcft fault is, they have them too fledgM out of the Neft, 

 and that makes them retaiii commonly fo much of their 

 6wn harfti Notes : therefore thofe who do intend to 

 have them excellent, and avoid their own fqueaking 

 Notes, muft take them from the old ones at the end of 

 .three or four days i and thus you muft do to all birds 

 you would learn to whittle, or fpeak, or learn another 

 birds Song by hanging under him. 



0/^k RED-STA RT. 



THis Bird is a Fore-runner of the Nightingale^ and 

 is of a very fullen dogged temper in a cage i but 

 abroad is very chearful, and hath a very pleafant kind 

 of whiftling Song. 



The Cock is fair and beautifully coloured, and is de-' 

 lightful to the eye. They breed thrice a year i the lat- 

 ter end oiAprily in May^ and towards the latter end of 

 June, 



They build ufually in holes of hollow Trees , or 

 under houfe-eaves: She is the Queft bird I know of 

 her building-, for when (he is about her Neft, if (he 

 perceive any look on, ftie forfakes it •, and if you touch 

 an Egg fhe never comes more to the Neft , and if ftic 

 have young ones and you do the like, (he will either 

 ftarve them , or break their Necks over the Neft. 



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