ROBIN- REDBREAST . 
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Feed them with fheep’s heart and egg, or 
other lean flefh made into a foft pafte, as older- 
ed for young Nightingales , let their meat be 
minced very fmall, well cleanfed from fkin, fi- 
ll ews, fat, or firings, giving them but little at a 
time, for if you overload their tender ftomachs' 
it will diforder the birds. 
When you find them begin to be ftrong, put 
them in a cage like the Nightingale or Wood- 
Lark, which 111 ou Id be clofer wired, and let' 
them have dry rnois or fine gravel at the bot- 
tom, and in all refpecls keep and order them 
like the Nightingale. When they feed them-- 
felves, you may try them with W ood-Lark 's 
meat, becaufe fome of thefe birds like it better 
than -the Nightingale’s. 1 think both together 
aeree bed: with them ; for they love variety of 
food : they are alfo great lovers of mould full 
of ants or other infects at the bottom of their: 
'Their Difenfes and Cures . 
The want of keeping thefe birds clean and 
neat often occalions die marry difeafes they are 
fubject to and makes them never thrive nor de- 
light ; n themfelves. 
This bi'-d is very fubjeft to the cramp, and 
a giddinefs of the head, which makes him of- 
ten fall off from his perch upon his back, and it 
