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out, and put in clean straw, till they are well 

 feathered, when they should be removed to 

 a large cage, having two or three perches 

 in it, with dry moss or straw at the bottom. 

 Full grown birds may be fed with any kind 

 of butcher's meat, either boiled, raw, or 

 roasted ; or they may, by degrees, be entirely 

 weaned from flesh, and fed on nothing but 

 bread and hemp seed ; I do not, however, 

 approve of this kind of nourishment, for I 

 consider a mixture of bread and meat as 

 the best. Give them likewise some clean 

 water twice a week to wash in. 



The diseases and methods of cure are 

 the same as those of the blackbird and 

 starling. 



