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any Kind pf.Fleili Meat minced fine, and 

 ordered as before for Ibme other Birds, which 

 you may let him now and then have for 

 Change of Diet, always leaving fome of 

 his conftant Meat in the Cage at the lame 

 Time, that he may eat which he will. 



An uncommon Care fliould be taken of 

 preferving this fine Bird, becaufe he is fo very 

 Tender, in often lliifcing his Gravel, Victuals, 

 Water, &c. 



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The Defcription and Chara&er, 



THIS Bird is lefs than the SkJe-krk, 

 about the Bignefs of the Nightingale'^ 

 very handlbme fhap'd, and finely feathered ; 

 that in Beauty few Birds excel him : He fings 

 mod like the Canary bird of any whatfoever, 

 whisking, curring, chewing, &c, but hjs Song 

 is Ihort, and hath no Variety in \t, Som.e- 

 times indeed a Cock T^H-krhe proves a very 

 fine Song-bird, but 'tis very rare, and the beft 

 of them fing but four or five Months in the 

 Year. 



He comes with the Nightingale^ about the 

 JLnd oi March^ and goes alouc theBeginning 



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