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COMMON WREN. 
form refembling an egg, covered over at top, 
and hath m the middle of the tide a fmall 
round hole to go in and out at. The outfide 
is of green mofs and fog, the in fide of hair, 
wool, and feathers, on which the hen lays fome- 
tunes to the number of fifteen or tixteen eggs j 
but many times hatches not half that number ; 
they are very fmall white eggs, fprinkied all 
over with fmall red fpots. 
Of the 2 bung , hoiv to order and hr mg them zip. 
Let them be very well feathered before you 
take them ; they are to be fed, and reared like 
the young Nightingales and Robins, giving 
them but little at a time, one or two very 
fmall bits. 
When they are grown ft for a cage, let 
them have a large one, made with very clofe 
wire, with three tides wood, and one fide wire; 
it requires to he lined with a cloth or bays for 
keeping them warm : though it is a very fmall 
biid, yet a linall cage does not agree with it, 
nor with any bird whatfoever, though it is of- 
ten pra&ifed. 
In the Winter time efpecially, you muft 
take care to keep them very- warm and clean, 
giving them often dry gravel in their cage. 
