Directions tor rearing the young. 



at a time, they will soon grow tame and feed 

 themselves; they should be immediately put, 

 with the nest, into a little basket, covered warm, 

 and constantly fed every two hours. Their food 

 should be sheep's hearts, or other raw flesh-meat, 

 chopped very fine, and all the strings, skins, and 

 fat taken away : and it should always be mixed 

 with hens' eggs boiled hard ; they should be put 

 in cages like the nightingale's back-cage, with a 

 little straw or dry moss at the bottom ; but when 

 they are grown large, they should have ants' 

 mould; they must be kept very clean, like other 

 singing birds, for otherwise they will have the 

 cramp, and perhaps the claws will drop off. la 

 autumn they will sometimes abstain from their 

 food for a fortnight, and sometimes longer, unless 

 two or three meal-worms be given them two or 

 three times a week, or two or three spiders iri 

 a day ; they must liikewise have a little saffron 

 in their water. Figs chopped small among their 

 meat will help them to recover their flesh. 

 When their legs are gouty, to which they are 

 very subject after having been kept for some 

 time in a cage, they should be anointed vith 

 fresh butter, or capon's fat, three or four days 

 together. If they grow melancholy, \\ hite sugar- 

 candy should be put into their water, and they 

 should be fed with sheep's heart, with three or 

 four meal-worms in a day, and a few ants, with 

 their eggs, and some of their mould at the bot- 



