THE BULLFINCH. 37 



Take a certain quantity of rape seed, which 

 has been soaked eight or ten hours in clean 

 water, and let it be well scalded, strained, 

 and bruised ; mix with it an equal quan- 

 tity of white bread, boiled with a little 

 milk to a thick consistency : this paste 

 should be made every day, as it will get 

 sour if kept longer. When they are able 

 to feed themselves, give them rape and 

 canary seed, but more of the former than 

 the latter. If at any time you find them 

 out of order, put a blade of saffron in 

 their water, or try them occasionally with 

 the wood lark's meat. 



Their disorders, and the treatment of 

 them, are the same as those of the canary, 

 which see. 



