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cxfierience informs us, where one lives to that age, an 

 hundred die. 



The IVood-lark^ feldom lives in a Cage above fix 

 yeajfS, and hardly five. 



ihtKohin nd'hreafi x^lz\'j lives above feven years •, 

 for he is a tender Bird, and much fubjedt to the F'al- 

 ling-ficknefs , Cramp, and Oppieffion of the Sco- 

 mack. 



The Skte-lark^zs he is a hardy Bird, (b he is long 

 liv'd alfo. All ibrts of Seed-birds live longer, than a- 

 ny foft-beak'd Birds, efpecially the Canary and Linnet, 

 1 have known a Canary-bird live and fing within a year 

 of twenty i in like manner the Linnet. 



So much as to the Lives of Singing Birds i let us now 

 confider which are moft ht for Whirling. 



In the firft place I look upon the Starling to be'" 

 the beft » and never heard better than at the Grey- 

 Honnd in St. M^iry Ax^ taught and fold by the inge^ 

 nious Mafter of that Houfe. But fince I have fpoken 

 of the Starling and Bull-finch already , I (hall in\\i\ no 

 farther. 



The Blackj bird hath a kind of rude Whiftle •, 

 and if young taken out of the Nelf , is very apt to 

 learn. 



The Robin-red-hreajl is a moft incomparable Bird 

 for the Whiltle , and to Speak alfo. A Robin is 

 a hot-mettled Bird , and therefore he muli not be in 

 the hearing of another , wherefore if you breed two, 

 let them be feparated into two feveral Rooms, that 

 they may not hear , and fo confequently fpoil each o- 

 ther. 



The Canary-bird will learn to Whittle any thing al- 

 raolt, if taken young out oftheNcli, otherwife not i 

 for being a very hot-mettled Bird, he will run upon his 

 own Song do what you can. 



The Linnet will learn any Tune almoftj if not too 

 [m 4] long^ 



