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 at a Time, as big as a Horfe-Eeari, and 

 when they come to feed themfelves, . you 

 may bring them up to Wood-lark's Meat, 

 and give them a little Fieili-Meat twice or 

 three Times a Week 



Some are of Opinion that they may learn 

 bed in a dark Cage, but I have known 

 them learn either in a dark or open Cage : 

 Some will teli you,^ that you muft cut their 

 1 ongue, but there is nothing at all in it, 

 for I have heard more talk that have not 

 been cut, than them that have. 



This is a very pleafmg Bird, and hardy 

 withal, yet I have had fom.e of them trou- 

 bled with Fits, that they have tumbled 

 down and beat themfelves about the Cages 

 and if I had not got them out, they would 

 have beat themfelves to Pieces. The beil 

 1 hing to prevent this, is to give them now 

 and then a Spider or Meal- Worm and t© 

 put a little Saffron in their Water. 



5l9 know a Cock fy^om a Hen. 



OPEN his Mouth, and look under 

 the Tongue, and you will find a black 

 Stroke, which you may perceive quite thro* 

 if it be a Cock, and the Hen has little or 

 none ; when they come to Moult, the Cock 

 iofes that black Stroke : The Feathers when 

 tnoulted off of the Breaft of the Cock, is 



very 



