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about a Week, you may give them a little 

 of the Wood-Larks Victurils, by reiioa too 

 much loft Victuals will make them rouen •, 

 the iboner you can break them of Bread and 

 Milk the better ; neverthelefs, you may giv^e 

 them fome Wood-Lark's Meat, or 'Ibme 

 other foft Victuals, till thev are able to 

 crack their Seed, which I look upon to be 

 at fix or {^\t^ Weeks old, before which 

 Time they are not able to live upon hard 

 Seed. 



H^jW to know a Cock from a Hen. 



HEN you have the N eft together, 

 you may obferve them that lo:)k 

 the browneft up m the Backs, and like wife 

 if you open their Wings^ you will find the 

 ieconcl, third, or fjurth Feather white up 

 to the Quill ; thoie Birds that are io brown 

 of the Back, and fnew quite white up tD 

 their Quill, never fail of beingCocks. Your 

 Hqu. haves a little cafi of v/hite, and like- 

 wife a little brownim upon their Backs, but 

 nothing like unto a Cock, for v/hich R.eafoa 

 if you fee tihe Neil together, snd obferve 

 them well, you will fee the Diilerence bet-* 

 ter than I can defcribe to you, that is, by 

 the white Feathers in the' V\dng, and thC' 

 Browa.efs of the Back . 



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