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black-bird. 
• Of the young Birds , and how to order them , 
The Black-Bird has either four or five young 
enes at a breeding, hardly ever more or lefs : 
you may take them at twelve days old, or foon- 
er’: they may be raifed with little trouble, ta- 
king care to keep them clean, and feeding them 
with fheep’s heart, or other lean meat, that is ' 
not falted, cut very fmall, and mixed with a 
little bread *, and, while young, give them their 
meat moift, and feed them every two hours, or 
thereabouts ; when they are grown up, feed 
them with any fort of flefh meat, raw or d ref- 
fed, provided it be not fait ; it will be rather 
better food for them, if you mix a little bread 
with it. When their neft grows foul, take 
them out, and put them into a cage or bafket, 
upon clean ftraw ; and when they can feed them- 
felves, feparate them. 
He is a ftout healthful bird, not very fubjeft 
to diforders ; but if you find him fick, or droop 
at any time, an houfe-fpider or two will help 
him ; and let him have a little cochineal in his 
water, which is very chearful and good. They 
love to wafh and prune their feathers ; there- 
fore when they are fully grown up, fet water 
in their cages for that purpofe. 
