WOOD- LARK, 
tender birds, and generally four in number : 
if you are minded to bring them up from the 
neft, which you will find exceeding difficult to 
do, don’t take them too foon, not before they 
are well feathered ; becaufe, when they ere too 
young, they are more fubjedt to the cramp and 
lcouring, which commonly kills them: put them 
into a baflcet with a little hay at the bottom, or 
fome ftich thing, where they may lie clean and 
warm, tying them dole down : feed them with 
fheep’s heart, or other lean flefh meat, raw, 
mixed with a hard boiled egg, a little bread, 
and hemp-feed bruited or ground, 2 II chopped 
together as fine as it is poitible to do it, and 
raj. ip a ]iti ]g- -Tial *1 w’.iL dean vater ■ sv?rv two 
hours, or oftener, give them five or fix final 1 
bits, taking great care never to overload their 
tender ftomaehs. Let not their meat be too 
ft ale, dry, mouldy, or four ; for your birds fo 
fed, whether old or young, will never thrive. 
The wild ones feed upon beetles, caterpillars, 
and other infects ; likewife upon feeds. 
The Wood- Lark, as if fenfihle of his own 
melodious fong, will take from no other, unlefs 
brought up from the neft j then he may be 
taught the fong o: r another bird. 
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