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have frefh victuals every day, or every other 
day at farthefi: : when you have fed them a 
month, or thereabouts, begin to break them 
from this foft meat, by giving them a little 
Canary-feed, and foft meat betides ; when you 
find they feed pretty freely upon the feed, keep 
them con-ftantly to that diet ; but though they 
will eat hemp feed, and feme other kinds of 
feed, yet I never found it agree fo weh with 
them as the canary. 
If a young Gold-Finch be brought up under 
the Canary-Bird, the Wood-Lark, or any other 
fine tinging bird, he will take their long very 
readily. 
A cock-bircl, bred from the neft, will couple 
>vith a hen Canary-Bird, and produce a bird 
between both kinds, partaking of the fong and 
colours of both. 
This is a long-lived and very healthful bird, 
that is feldom out of order; but when t find 
him droop, I give him fefiron in his water : it 
he has a fcouring, crumble a little dry chalk in 
his cage, or among his feed, or flick a bit be- 
twixt the wires of his cage, and gravel at the 
bottom, and try him with a- little thiftle-feed,. 
or other feeds, which they delight to feed up- 
on when wild ; : the firft may be found in the 
great thiftje, at the bottom of a white down. 
Thefe birds are taken almoft at any time of 
the year, civkyr with lime-twigs, or the clap* 
