<! o ^i^atural Biflory of 



ties. The Bird ftands within Side, when Ihe 

 is at Work, and makes her own Body the 

 Rule of her Dimenfions, in building. 



of the Toungy ho^ to Order them, &c. 



TH E Song'fhurjh has five or fix young 

 Ones at a Breeding; they may be taken 

 at twelve, or fourteen Days old, or fooner if 

 it be mild Weather ; they mufl: be kept warm 

 and clean, and fed with raw Meat, Bread, and 

 Hemp-Seed bruifed; the Meat cut fmall, 

 and the Bread a little wet, and then mixed 

 together : Feed them once in about twoHours ; 

 you muft be fiire to keep them very neat and 

 clean, take their Dung away every Time you 

 feed them : When their Neft grows very foul, 

 take them out, and put them in clean Straw ; 

 and when they are pretty well feathered, put 

 them in a large Cage with two or three Perches 

 in it, and dry Mols or Straw at the Bottom. 

 When they are grown up, you may feed them 

 with any Thing of Flefli Meat, boil'd, raw, or 

 rolled, provided it be not Salt; or you may by 

 Degrees intirely wean them of Flefli, and give 

 them only Bread and Hempfeed ,• but I ap- 

 prove of Flefli, mixt with Bread, as the befl: 

 Food. Give them frefli Water twice a Week 

 to Wafli themfelves ; otherwile they will not 

 thrive : If they are kept Dirty, it will give 



them 



