BULL-FINCH.. 
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little art ; on which Ihe lays four or five eggs of 
a blueifh colour, fpotted at -the biggeft end, with 
large dark brown, and faint reddifh fpots. 
Of the Youngs how to order and bring them up. 
These birds mu ft not be taken too young, 
let them be well feathered firft, at leaft twelve 
days old ; keep them warm and clean. Thefe 
birds, when young, are fed as the Linnet, Chaf- 
finch, &c. with bread, milk, and rape-feed, 
made into a pafte : feed them every two hours 
from morning till night, making but little at a 
time, that they may have frefli victuals every 
day. When they are grown up, feed them 
with rape and Canary -feed, three-fourths rape, 
and one-fourth Canary ; it is the beft food you 
can feed them with. 
- If at any time you perceive them out of or- 
der, put a blade of fafi'ron in their water; and 
you may try them with the Wood-Lark’s meat, 
or fine hemp-leed •, but keep moftly to rape and 
Canary-feed mixed together, the laft of which 
is molt acceptable to them. 
h ou mull remember frequently to pipe, 
whiftle, or talk to them, whilft they are young, 
what you intend they fliould learn, and you will 
find them foon take it. 
