(324) 
or Cb^mber- windows,? I. The Nighcingaie, 53» TheAVood-lark, 
.73. The beft feafon of takir^ the Nightingalf^and Wood-lark,&c. 
76. The Sky-lark, 80. The Throftleof fev^ral kinds, 87. Robin 
Redbrcaft, the Kidg of Singing-birds, 94. The Jenny Wren, 97. 
The Titlark, 9 9^ The red Start, 100. The Hedge fparrow, 103. 
The folitarySparrow, 103. The B!ack-bird, 105. Thefe are all 
called the [oft- beaked Birds, 10.6. ^ The hard- beaked Birds , which 
feed upon Seeds, are, The Canary- birds, 107» How to bread them 
here, 1 10, &c* How they breed them in Germany, 112. The Lin- 
net, 11 7. The Gold-finch, 1 22. The Chaff-finch, 125. The Green- 
finch, 1 26. The peculiar difeafes incident to each kind, 13 2. How 
many years each kind will fing, or live, and. v/here beft for {iar- 
mony, 1 3 3* In thefe curiofities he is more then ordinarily curi- 
ous and large, from 5 r , to 1 3 6. -j^ , 
3. He notes it pag 136* to be very obfervabIe,that no Animal 
befides Birds, can Ieam, or, by any means, be taught to fpeak, or to 
imitate a mans, voice: Wemnjadd^ Nor yet to imitate., aijcJ iniich 
je/s to eniulare Mansfi^^^^ made by m^nj As our 
Author records a hotand continued contention between a Gentle- 
man of his Acquaintance, and a Nightingale free in a Grove, for 
the viflory in finging,: 79 j which ftoryfupporcs the credit of the 
]0U c<}ntention\^iw^ t^ie lsfighfingalc and the Lutenift, celebrated 
^in tlie Elegant VptCte of Fa^^ And the famous Lord 
S^};e^ke^yQ his vote,(as G^/fe»^ tells usj for tht^ niufic of Birds 
above any Haniiony that man can make. And themufic of Birds 
is thenfweeteft, when they are free, and at full liberty, fand cannot 
complainof reftraiiit) in a Grove } and where they can choofe 
their Conforts, and the places,: and poftures of approach or di- 
ftance, and with choice of Echoes, as our Author noted in the 
Nightingalsand Wood^Iarks , twoNightingals to two Wood larks, 
79. And we have not feen any Animals more fondly loving to 
M ankind, than Birds. And it feems eafie to tame Birds to refort 
to what Groves we pleafc, (and fome have performed it ;) there to 
build their Nefts, andio breed up their young, only being fumifli- 
cd with fit materials at hand : And for fuch as cannot bear our Wrn» 
ter, or our Summer, they may in feafbn be invited into clean en- 
clofures* And when at liberty, they may be confined to one Grove 
or Thicket adorned with fragrant and health-breathing Trees 5 and 
A^Vf^^^(rotja^fm^^^ they are Jiurtful 3 fhougl) 
.^j.. ^ ^r^-,-.. .^c-^n ' i^either 
