5 8 A Natural HiJIory of 



at ten or twelve Days old, if you let them 

 lie too long they are apt to be fullen j 

 keep them warm in a little Basket with 

 Hay at the Bottom 5 feed them with the 

 Wood-Lark^sMesit^ or as you bring up young 

 Nightingales 5 let their .Meat be minced 

 very fmall, as ordered for other Birds, giv- 

 ing them but little at a time 5 if you over- 

 load their tender Stomachs it will diforder 

 the Birds 5 when they are grown ftrong 

 'Cage them in a Cage, like the Nightin- 

 gales or Wood-Larks :y it Ihould be fome- 

 thing clofer wiered, and let them have 

 Mofs at the Bottom, and in all Refpefts 

 keep and order them like the Nightingale : 

 When they feed themfelves you may try 

 them with the Wood^Lark*s Meat, becaufe 

 fome of thefe Birds like it better than the 

 Nightingale^ s» 



of their Vifeafes and Cure. 



THEY are very much fubka to the 

 Cramp and Giddinefs ^ for the Cure 

 of the former give them a Meal-Worm 

 now and then ; for the latter, fix or fevcn 

 Earwigs in a Week. 



There are many Kinds of Infeds that 

 Birds will eat greedily, and very probably 

 would relieve them under Maladies could 



they 



