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They fhould be fed at this time with turnip 
feed, oats, millet, and hemp-feed.—The day be¬ 
fore the female is expected to hatch, flic fhould 
be fupplied with fealded food, and eggs boiled 
hard ; but all green vegetables mud be avoided, 
bccaufe they would w'eaken the young. Some¬ 
times a little bread moiftened with water will be 
a very proper food. 
When they are feparated from their young, 
they ought to be fupplied with plantain, and let¬ 
tuce feed, in fmall quantities. 
In the management of Canary-birds, it is pof- • 
fiblc to do too much ; we fhould never lofe 
fight of nature; in their wild date they frequent 
dreams, we fhould therefore let them have a con- 
dant fupply of water, that they may occafionally 
bathe themfelves. 
There are feveral diforders to which they are 
fubjeft; fometimes they die in confequence of 
eating to excefs, fometimes in moulting: young 
Canary-birds are liable to a complaint in their 
intedines, which become inflamed, and didended : 
this is a common, and generally a fatal com¬ 
plaint, arifing from too great a quantity of food, 
or from its being too moid. Some indifpofitions 
to which they are fubjeff, proceed from want of 
neatnels. The pip is another complaint; the bird 
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