5 4 -^ Natural Hijlory of 



m the Morning, till fix or feveri at Night: 

 Prepare their Meat as was directed by the Bull- 

 finch^ viz. Rape-feed foaked in Water eight 

 or ten Hours; then fcalded, ftrain'd, and 

 bruifed, mingled with an equal Quantity of 

 white Bread, foaked in fair Water, ftrained 

 and boiled with a little Milk, as I faid be- 

 fore, to a thick Confiftancy ; let them have 

 frefh every Day, becaufe four Meat will fling 

 the Birds into a Icouring, which often brings 

 Death ; when they begin to feed themlelves, 

 ftt fcalded Rape-feed in their Cages, to w^ean 

 them from the Bread and Milk as foon as poC- 

 fible, becaufe, Ibmetimes feeding too long up- 

 on foft Food, will make them Rotten : It w^ill 

 be a Month or fix Weeks before they will 

 be able to crack their Seeds, and live entirely 

 upon hard Meat. In the mean v/hile, for 

 Change of Diet, you may give them fome 

 of the Wood-lark's^ or other Birds Vi<9:uals. 

 There are other forts of Food made Ufe of 

 in bringing up young Linnets^ but this is 

 proved to anfwer as well as any. 



The Linnets Difeafes and their Cures. 



THIS is a very healthful Bird, I have 

 known them kept many Years without 

 ailing any Thing : But fometimes he is 

 troubled wath Melancholy, occafioned from a 

 Swelling at the End of his Rump^ which, 



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