NIGHTINGALE. 
are more lively in the former. A Nightingale’- 
neft may be found by obfervingthe place where 
the cock lings, for the hen is never far off- 
or you may Hick two [or three meal-worms on 
the thorns near the place mod frequented by 
the cock, and then obferve, when he comes to 
take them, which way he carries them, and by 
liftening you will hear the young, while the old 
ones are about feeding them. 
When you have found the neft, if the young 
ones are not fledged enough to be taken, you 
mufl not touch them, for then the old ones 
will entice them away : They ihould not be ta- 
ken till they are ?lmoft as full of feathers as the 
old ones ; they will refufe their meat, but you 
may open their bills, and give them two or 
three fmall bits at a time, and they will foon 
grow tame and feed themfelves ; they fliould be 
put, with the neft, into a little bafket, which 
fhould be covered up warm, and they fliould 
be fed every two hours. Their food fhould be 
ftieep’s hearts, or other raw flefli-meat, chop- 
ped very fine, and all the firings, fkins, and fat 
taken away ; but it fliould, always be mixed with 
hard hen’s eggs ; they fliould be put in cages 
like the Nightingale’s back-cage, with a little 
ftraw or dry mofs at the bottom; but when they 
are grown large they fliould have ant’s mould ; 
they fliould be kept very clean, like other Ting- 
ing birds, for otherwile they will have the 
