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any other Way; if they meet with free Accefs, they 
fometimcs feize the hid Moments to fettle under 
the Feathers, or in the Bodies, where they multi- 
ply. 
You will put your Birds out of the Reach of the 
formidable Teeth of thofe Infects, if after they have 
been taken out of the Oven, you bury them in 
Sand contained in a large Box or a Barrel. You 
muft take care in covering them with Sand, that 
they may not contract bad Attitudes, and that their 
Feathers be not ruffled. Slack’d Lime reduced to 
Powder, Chalk, and all earthy Powders, fine and 
dried, may be fuccefsfully employ’d for the fame 
Ufe. You will prefs with your Hand the Surface 
of the Powder, to render the uppermofl Lay com- 
pact, which is very neceflary. Laflly, if from the 
falling of the Feathers it appears that the Infe&s 
have defeated the Precautions taken againd them, 
there is Bill a Remedy left ; you may flop the Pro- 
grefs of the Evil by putting the Bird again into the 
Oven, not hot enough to finge the Feathers, but 
hot enough to kill the Infefts in lefs than half an 
Hour. 
Remarks that are common to the four Ways of pre- 
paring Birds. 
i. It will not be amifs to fend two or three Birds 
of each fort; and, as near as you can, let there be 
one Male and one Female. 
2. One cannot help being curious to know the Name 
which each Bird bears in the Country where it was 
taken : You write it with common Ink upon a Slip of 
T t Parchment, 
