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food . — The fame as the wood-lark, or 
nightingale, but be careful not to overcharge 
their' ftomachs. Never let them want frefli 
water, and once a week, put in it a blade of 
fatfron. 
SKY-LARK. At about a month old, the 
cock may be known by his notes, which, 
though low, arc diftin£tly altered. In old 
birds, the cock is the lighteft coloured, has 
a browner back, a yellower throat and bread:, 
and a white belly. 
Food — Give them egg, bread, and bruifed 
hemp-feed, with red fand at the bottom of 
the cage, and they will grow tame in two or 
three days. The neftlings fliould be fed, 
every two hours., with white bread and milk, 
mixed with one third part of rape-feed, 
foaked, boiled, and well bruifed. A flieep’s 
heart, or other frcfli meat, minced fmall, 
is good for them ; and, nowand then, they 
fliould have a hard egg chopped very fine, an 
equal quantity of hemp feed bruifed, and a 
little bread grated among it. Give tliem a 
turf of three-leaved grafs twice a week to 
percli upon. 
SPARROW. The hedge-fparrow may 
be tamed fo as to fly about the houfe, with- 
out any apprehcnfion of its ftraying. It will 
take tlie fong of the befl: finging birds, if 
pi'operly placed with them. The cock has a 
long, (lender, dulky coloured bill. The up- 
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