SKY-LARK. 
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ber to boil your egg very hard, grate it fine, 
and mix it with an equal quantity of hemp-feed, 
bruifed while the birds are young, but when 
they are able to crack the feed, give it them 
whole, and a little bread grated among it. You 
may then let them have a freih turf of grafs 
once or twice a-week, and fi'ft fome fine dry 
gravel at the bottom of the cage, fhifting it of- 
ten, that it may not clog their feet : for change 
of diet, you may fometimes give them a little 
or the flefh meat. After they have done moult- 
ing, you may give them bread, egg, and whole 
hemp feed every other day, and a freih turf 
©nee a-week. As the birds are of an hardy na- 
ture, this careful management will prefer ve them 
many years. 
This bird at full growth is fix inches and a 
quarter long ; of which the tail is three inches, 
and the bill three quarters of an inch. When 
in flefh it weighs about an ounce and a half. 
The Sky-Lark, as mentioned before, feldom 
ails any thing ; but if you perceive him at any 
time to fcour, or dung loofe, grate a ftnall matter 
of old theefe amonghis victuals, or give him three 
or four wood-lice in a day, or a fpider or two, 
and in his water a little faffron, or liquorice ; 
thefe are the beft things I can recommend, and 
what will relieve him, though lie won’t often 
ftand in need of any thing more than good meat 
and drink, clean gravel, aitel a freih iurfl 
