Engliili Singtng-Birds. 3^ 



fang ftoutly all that Time ; therefore, con- 

 fidering the Statelinefs and Beauty of this 

 Bird ; his great Freenefs in Singing his plea« 

 fant harmonious Notes, for at leaft eight 

 Months in the Year, and the Time he may be 

 kept in a Cage, with Care, is highly de- 

 ferving of the Charader I Have given him, 

 and worthy the Efteem of all Lovers of Birds. 

 If you can bring a young One up under fomc 

 fine Song-Lark^ 'tis a way to have a, very va- 

 luable Bird ; but if you faffer him to hear 

 other Birds, he will be apt to take their Notes^ 

 whether good or bad, to which no Bird is 

 more Sabjed. 



To know the Cod from the Hen. 



TO diftinguilli one from the other in thfe 

 Kind, is no eafy Matter ; and about 

 which there are various Opinions, bat hardly 

 one that can be depended upon : They fay, 

 the Bird that fets up his Feathers on his 

 Crown, is certainly a Cock • and that the 

 longeft Heel Bird is another lure Sign, and 

 fpme fay, by two white Feathers in the Tail: 

 This is all but guefs Work, that fometimes 

 proves right, and fometimes wrong. I am told 

 the biggeft and longeft bodied Bird never 

 fails of proving a Cock ; I caat lay that I 

 ever made the Obfei_vation my felf,' nor do I 



pretend 



