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you may put your birds together in their breed- 
mg cage ; . and the larger it is, the more conve- 
nient it will be for the birds to exercife them- 
felves ; the common fized cages being too fmall 
for the purpofe. If you breed with feveral pairs 
flying loofe in a room, it will be neceftary to 
pair them in fmall cages for a fortnight or fo, 
that they may contract a familiarity and attach- 
ment before they are turned out promifcuoufly. 
Never attempt to breed with two hens in one 
^ 01 their jealoufy of each other will dif~ 
appoint your expe&atiens from both. There 
fnould be two neft boxes in every cage ; for 
though the young ones generally leave the neft 
m fourteen days, the hen fometimes begins ano- 
ther neft before they are out; and if fhe has not 
a box provided, will build upon the young birds 
and fmother them. 
It may not be amifs alfo, as the hen is com- 
monly attached to that corner of the cage where 
lhefirilfits, to Aide the neft of young birds 
farther, in, whep fhe inclines to build again, and 
put the empty box upon the fpot from whence 
the neft is removed. 
. If y° u would have young ones from any par- 
ticular cock or hen, you muft put fuch a pair in a 
cage by themfelves twelve or fourteen days. The 
frit day or two, the hen being flay, they may 
perhaps fee m not to agree, but they will foon 
make it up and be better acquainted, which 
