


NATURAL HISTORY. ge 
tered. In old birds, the cock is the lighteftcoloured, 
has a browner back, a yellower throat and breaft, and 
a white belly. . 
Foop.....Give them egg, bread and bruifed hemp 
feed, with red fand at the bottom of the cage, and 
they will grow tame intwoorthreedays. ‘The neft- 
lings fhould be fed, every two hours, with white 
bread and milk, mixed with one third part of rape 
feed, foaked, boiled and well bruifed. A fheep’s 
heart, or-other frefh meat, minced {mall, is good for 
them ; and, now and then, they fhould have a hard 
egg chopped very fine, an.equal quantity of hemp 
feed bruifed, and a little bread grated among it. 
Give them a turf of three leaved grafs twice a week 
to perch upon. 
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SPARROW.» 
Ve hedge fparrow may be tamed fo as to fly 
about the houfe, without any apprehenfion of its {tray - 
ing. It will take the fong of the beft finging birds, 
it properly placed with them. ‘The cock hasa long, 
flender, dufky coloured bill. The upper fide of his 
body is black, mixed with a dirty red, and the breaft 
is black. . 
Foop.....When taken, feed them, at twelve days 
old, with minced frefh meat and bread, or woodlark’s. 
meat. When brought up, give them hemp and Ca 
nary. Iidrooping, mix it with a little oatmeal, 
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