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dHavinc defcribed the ftarling ih page 105 of 
this volume, we have only to obferve that their food 
is the fame.as that’of the blackbird, er woodlark. 
SHWMHIMHO— 
L ‘Wiles! ; : r 
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», THRUSH or THROSTLE. 
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i HE thruth has a great variety of note, and fings 
nine months in the year. The feathers of the cock 
differ from thofe of the hen, in beauty, flecknefs and 
brilliancy. 
~ Foop..... When full grown, feed them with freth 
meat, raw or drefled, with bread. This agrees bett 
with them, though they may be brought to feed en- 
tirely on bread or hemp feed. ‘They fhould havea ~~ 
frefh pan of water twice a week. When cramped, — 
‘put fern or clean ftraw onthe bottom of the cage, _ 
and feed them, as they lie, with nightingale’s meat. 
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SHOVOQIOIO— 
see FIT LARK uo1d ood Me. apo 
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HIS bird is handfomely:thaped, and excelled by 
very few. It has no remarkable fong, unlefs the, 
core is particularly excellent, when it will fing like 
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