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 them rotten, and decays their Colours \''ery 

 much 5 if you feed them with Canary they 

 are a very beautiful Bird, and I think the 

 fineR feathered Bird we keep in Cages. This 

 Bird is a very merry Bird, and has a pleafant 

 Song of his own, and if they were not fo 

 very plenty, they would be as much admir- 

 ed as a Canary Bird -, I have fent them over 

 Sea, by Captains and Merchants, to the Ca- 

 naries, andfeveral other Counteries, wheife 

 they are as much admired as we do Canary 

 Birds in E?igla?id... 



This Bird is to be catch'd feveral Ways,, 

 and at feveral Times in the Yearjthey be- 

 ing of fuch a tame andfamiliar Nature, that 

 they'll ling in a Fortnight's Timf, catch 

 them what. Time in the Year you will ; you. 

 may catch young Ones, which we call grey 

 Fates, in June,. July, or Airjc/l, but I look, 

 upon the befl: Time for catching them is at. 

 Michaelmas -, you catch them v/ith Clap- 

 Nets as you do Linnets, and you may find; 

 them in great Flocks in thilteily Fields,^ 

 for they feed upon the Seed whichds in ti;^ 

 1 hixtle a"dTontells : this is the Food th^^ 

 feed upon moii: part of the Winter-, they 

 are a tender Birdiii the Summer*^- but hardyi;; 

 if catch'd in the' Winter, and will fmg pre--' ■ 

 fently , they are greatLovers of Hemp-Seed, 

 and when they are firii: cttch'd they com- 

 monly feed them with it, but I break them. 



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