Englilh Singing-Birds. 41 



Of the Toungy honv to Order them, dec. 



THESE Birds muft be taken when a- 

 bout ten Days old ; if ycu let them 

 alone longer, you run a great Hazard of lole- 

 ing them, I have known them quit their Neft 

 in feven or eight Days, when they have been 

 difturbed, efpecially if the old Ones fee you 

 look at their young, they will then intice 

 them away of a fudden ; and in Rainy Wea- 

 ther, 'tis furprizing to fee how young they - 

 will leave their Neft ; I have been difappoint- 

 ed at fuch a Time, when I thought it almofl: 

 impoffible for them to get away^ one would 

 naturally think the Neft to be the beft, and 

 fafeth Place for them in fuch Weather ; but 

 fo it is, I have Remarked it often, that the 

 young of moft, if not all kinds of Birds, are 

 nouriftied more, their Feathers grow fafter, 

 and fooner fly, or quit their Nefts in wet, 

 than in dry Weather. 



When you have taken a Neft of young,' 

 put them into a little Basket with fome fliort 

 clean Hay at the Bottom, cover and tie them 

 down clofe and warm, and feed them with 

 white Bread and Milk boiFd thick, mixed 

 with about a third Part of Rape-feed, foak'd, 

 boird and bruifed : Some bring them up with 

 Sheep's Heart minced very fine, or other 

 Fleih Meat ; I cannot to often repeat the Care 



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