Englilh Singing-Birds. i f 



a Cock, if a Hen, they will come of a paliiDht 

 Brown. 



The TimCy Manner y &c. of her BuiUing^ 



THE Bullfinch breeds late in the Spring ; 

 feldom has young Ones before the End 

 of May J or Beginning of June : She builds 

 in an Orchard, Wood, or Park, where there 

 are Plenty of Trees, or on Heaths : Her Neft 

 is not very common to be found ; 'tis an 

 ordinary mean Fabrick,^ made with feemingly 

 little Art : She lays four or five Eggs, of a 

 bluifh Colour, fpotted at the biggefl End, with 

 large dark brown, and faint reddilh Spots* 



Of the Toungy and how to Order them^ &c 



YOU muft not take thefe Birds too young; 

 let them be well feathered firft, at leafl 

 twelve, or fourteen Days old ; keep them 

 warm and clean, feed them every two Hours, 

 from Morning until Night, giving them lit- 

 tle at a Time: Their Meat mull be Rape^ 

 Seed foaked in clean Water, eight or ten 

 Hours; then fcalded, flrained, and bruifed, 

 mixt with an equal Quantity of white Breadl 

 foaked in fair Water, boiled vvith a little 

 Milk to a thick Confiftency ; Make but little 

 at a Time, but" let them have frefh every 

 Day, it being apt to four in two Days, and 



D ^ fuch 



