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SON'J- THRUSH, OR MAVIS, 
n half; therefore, allowing for tail, bill, and 
head, which always lie out when Ihe fits in her 
neft, the cavity is juft fitted to receive her bo- 
dy. The lame I have obferved of the nefts of 
feme other birds ; efpecially fuch as build wit It 
fides, and make deep cavities. The bird hands 
within fide when fire is at work, and makes 
her own body the model of her dimensions in 
building;. 
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Of the Young , hew to order them , feV. 
The Song-Thrufh has five or fix young ones 
at a breeding ; they may be taken at twelve or 
fourteen days old, or fooner, if it be mild wea- 
ther ; they mu ft be kept warm and clean, and 
fed with raw meat, bread, and hemp-feed brui- 
fed ; the meat cut final 1, and the bread a little 
wet, and then mixed together : feed them once 
in about two hours. You muff be-fure to keep 
them very neat and clean; take their dung away 
every time you feed them : when their neft grows 
very foul, take them out, and put them in clean 
ftraw ; and when they are pretty well feather- 
ed, put them in a large cage with two or three 
perches in it, and dry mofs and firaw at the bot- 
tom. When they are grown up, you may feed 
>thein with fiefh meat, boiled, raw, or roafted, 
