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The Starling has four or five young ones at 
a bleeding ; they may be taken when double 
pen-mathM ed, which is aoout ten days old ; ta- 
king the fame care in keeping them very clean 
and warm, as was directed in the Black-Bird 
and Thru fli : you may put them in a bafket in 
clean ft raw, and bring them up with the fame 
meat, and after the fame manner as young 
Black-Birds, feeding them every two hours, five 
or fix final! pieces at a time ; let the n have 
enough, but never overload the ftomachs of 
young birds, it does them more harm tb m orood, 
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Every time you feed, or take them in hand, you 
may talk to them what you would have them 
learn ; they are apt birds, and will take it pre- 
fently. To flit their tongues, as many people 
advife and praftife, . that the birds, as they fay, 
may talk the plainer, is a cruel and ufeiels ex- 
pedient ; they will talk as well without, as I 
have found by experience ; as will likewife Mag- 
pies, and other talking birds. When they can 
feed themfelves, put them in a large cage, with 
clean ftraw or mofs at the bottom, and give 
them fometimes clean water to wafli themfdves 
in ; this is the moil fare method to have good 
healthful birds, fuch as will reward your trouble 
in bringing them up. The Starling, when wild, 
feeds upon beetles, worms, and other in lefts, 
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