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them. Feed them every two Hour?, giving 

 them tv/o cr three fmall Bits at a time: 

 Let their Meat be Sheep's Heart or other 

 FJefli Meat raw, chopped very fine, weli 

 cleanfed and freed frdm Skin, Sinews, and Fat 

 or Strings, which will be apt to ftick in 

 their Throats, or twine about their Tongues, 

 and caufe them to fall off from their Meat^ 

 C^c-. mixed with Hens Eggs hard boiled. 



In a few Days they will take their Meat 

 off from the Stick themfelves 5 you may 

 then cage them in the Nightingde*% Back- 

 cage* Let them have a little Straw or dry 

 Mofs in the Bottotii of the Gage ; but wheo 

 they come to be large, give them Ant^ 

 Mould as you do the old Ones : Too may 

 learn them to feed upon fome Kind of jfn- 

 fefts, fuch as Meal-worms, Spiders, Ants, d^r, 

 being very ufeful when they are fick, I do 

 not approve of giving them much of that 

 Sort of Food when well. 



Of the Nightingale'^ Difeafes^ and their 

 Cure. 



F^IRST, Note, that the principal Thing 

 which caufes moft Difeafes, not only 

 in Nightingales^ but in other Birds kept for 

 finging, is as mentioned before, want of 



keeping 



