zo6 o<%ACiTHOLogr. Bookii. 



give it him. 2. Youmuft put red gravel lifted fine at the bottom of his Cage 5 for 

 he delights to bask himfelf in thefand, which if he doth not pretty often he proves 

 loufie, and then feldom comes to any thing: If you leave gravel-ftones in the fand 

 he will be apt to break his feathers in basking him. Shift this fand twice a week 

 otherwife he will befubject to clog his feet with his dung. 3. Be fure that his meat 

 be not too dale, for he will never thrive upon it when dry or mouldy. 4. Have a 

 great care to fhift his water oft [thrice a week at lead ] for it (links (boner than any 

 birds water ; becaufe throwing about his meat fome falls into it, which caufes it im- 

 mediately to dink. 5. Line your Pearch in the Cage with fome green bays, orelfe 

 make a Pearch of a Mat 5 which I have found them very much to delight in. 



Note 1. If your bird be very wild when he is taken, keep him three or four days 

 from company, till he begins to eat his meat. Strew fome of the Hemp-feed and Oat- 

 meal upon thefand, and fome of his mixtmeatalfo, becaufe fometimes they find not 

 the Pan till they be almoft familhed. 



Note 2. If he be very poor, at the beginning of the Spring give him every two or 

 three days a turf of three-leaved grafs, and boil him a iheeps heart, and mince it fmall, 

 and mingle it with his meat, and it willcaufe him to thrive exceedingly. 



Note 3. If you would have your bird fing very lavifh, feed him all the time of his 

 fong with (bme iheeps heart mixt with his Egg and bread andHemp-feed; and put in his 

 water two or three dices of Liquorice, and a little white Sugar-candy, with two or 

 three blades of Saffron 5 do fo once a week,and it will caufe him to be long winded. 



How to know a Cock, front a Hen. 



The fureft way to knowaCock from a Hen is, i.Thelargenefs and length of his 

 call. 2. The tall walking of the bird about the Cage. 3. At -Evenings the doubling 

 of his note, which we call Cudling, as if he were going to rood : But if you hear him 

 ling ftrong you cannot be deceived, for Hen-birds will fing but little. The ufe of this 

 is chiefly to know thofe birds, that are taken at flight-time 5 becaufe thofe taken at 

 other feafons fing loon after they are taken, or not at all. 



The Woodlarki Difeafes, and their Cures, 



Their difeafes are, 1. The Cramp, caufed by dung clogging and numbing their 

 Feet, if their gravel be not often drifted 5 or by hanging them out abroad in the rain, 

 fo wetting the fand they fit upon. This is helpt by lining their Pearch, that they may 

 delight to fit upon it, and giving them frefh fand, anointing them as the Nightin- 

 gale. 



2. Giddinefs in the Head occafioned by feeding upon much Hemp-feed, is helped 

 by giving them fome Gentles or Maggots, or elfe Hog-lice, or Ants and their Eggs : 

 And putting three orfour dices of Liquorice in their water. 



3. Loufinefs and Scurf : Cured by fmoaking his feathers with Tobacco, and gi- 

 ving him fredi Gravel, and fetting him in the Sun : For if he hath ftrength to bask in 

 the (and he will immediately rid himfelf of the Vermine. 



$. IV. 



The Tit-Lark.-, Alauda pratorum, Aldrov. 



T feemed to us lets by half than the common Lark., weighing fcarce an ounce} ha- 

 „ ving a long body, and a (mall head : A dender (harp Bill of half an inch long, the 

 upper Mandible black, more dat and deprefTed toward the Head : The tip of the 

 Tongue is jagged, the Circle about the Pupil hazel-coloured. The colour on the 

 top of the Head, Shoulders, and middle of the Back various, of a yellowifh green 

 and black 3 the middle parts of the feathers being black, the outfides or edges of a 

 yellowifh green. The lower part of the Back or Rump is only green without any 

 mixture of black. The upper fide is of the fore-mentioned various colour, the (in- 

 gle colours being lefs confpicuous by reafon of a (mall mixture of cinereous. As for 

 the underfide of the body,the Bread: and fides under the Wings were of a fordid yel- 

 lowifh white, fpotted with black, the lower belly and Throat under the Chin white, 

 without any black (pots. 



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