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cow-hair, wool, feathers, &c. making an ex- 
ceeding foft bed for her young, on which fhe 
lays four or five eggs of a whitifh colour, fpot- 
ted with a few large rediili brown fpots, with a 
few final 1 fpecks and breaks at the larged end, 
of the fame colour. 
Of the Young, how to order and bring them up . 
You may take them at ten days old, and feed 
them as you do the Gold- Finch or Linnet ; they 
are hardy birds, that may be eafdy railed. 
And when they are fick *md out of order, 
apply the fame things as you do to thefe birds. 
Thefe birds are taken in great plenty with 
clap-nets in June and July, efpecially the young 
flight, called Branchers $ therefore it is hardly 
worth the trouble of bringing them up from the 
ned j tho’ forne that are bred under the fweet- 
fong Chaffinch, or any other fine fong-bird, 
fometimes prove very good birds. 
