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'To know a Cock fro?n a Hen. 



WHEN you take them, look 

 under the l^hroat, down to the 

 Bread, and you will peceive fome to be 

 blocker than others, thofe that are blackefi: 

 are the Cocks. When they have Moulted 

 off, every body knows the Cocks by their 

 black Breafls. 



TIhe Linnet. 



THIS Bird is a verv fine one, and apt 

 to learn either to Pipe or Whillle, or 

 any other Bird's Note, I have heard of 

 their learning to fpeak. 



Thefe Birds build upon Heaths or Com- 

 mons, or in Failure Ground •, they alio 

 build among Furzes. I have known a Neil 

 taken in Broom, or in white Thorn, in a 

 Hedge ; they commonly breed in JpriL 

 and have young Ones fit to take abouc che 

 latter End ; they have conimonlv four rr 

 live young Ones, and iikewiie three or four 

 Nells in the Year •, you may take them at 

 about eight, nine or ten Days old, If you 

 would have them to learn, 'Ihey are a ve- 

 ry fine Bird for learning their Song of a 

 \\ ood-Lark. I have heard them fmg fo 

 fine, that I could not tell v/hich was the 

 Wood-Lark or Linnet ; they likev/ife take 

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