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 Beginning snd Middle of their Jong, which 

 is very ungrateful to the Ear. 



T'} hiO'W a Cock fro??t a Hen. 



THE firfl: and moft certain Method^ 

 is the Bird's Song, which is a never- 

 failing Argument if they hear him Sing, 

 that he is a Cock, for the Hens never Sing, 

 altho' fome have, by a Sort oT jabbering 

 Noife, which fome do make better than 

 others, deceived not only unskilled Perlons, 

 but thofe who have thought themfelves 

 compleat Fanciers, as I lliall hereafter give 

 a plealant Inftance. The Way then to di- 

 flinguiili between the Cock's Song and the 

 Hen's jabbering is, that the Cock, let him 

 fmg never lb indiiferent, almoft evervTime 

 he llrikes a Note, ycu may eafily perceive 

 the palTage of his Throat to heave, with a 

 pulfive Motion, fwelling like a little Pair 

 of Bellows all the Time he is warbling out 

 his pretty Notes, which never happens to a 

 Hen, for let her make what Noife ihe will, 

 and relemble finging never \o v/ell, this 

 Motion \.^ never obferved in her Throat as 

 it is in the Cock's. 



The next Obfervation is, the Largenefs, 

 Vigour, and majeftick Carriage of the 

 Cock,which he generallyiliews if inHealth, 

 by extending his NeckandHead, asifhe 



would 



