


OF BIRDS. 05 
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, the fhould. 
be fupplied with fcalded food, and eggs boiled 
hard ; but all green vegetables mutt be avoided, 
— becaufe they would weaken the young. Some- 
times a little bread moiftened with water will be 
avery proper food. 
| When they are feparated from their vehi: | 
» they ought to be fupplied with plantain, and let- 
face feed, in {mall quantities. 
a din the management of Canary-birds, it is sit 
‘fible to do too much; we fhould never lofe 
: fight of nature; in their wild ftate they frequent 
¥ ftreams, we fhould therefore let them have a con- 
fant fupply of water, that ie may occafionally. . 
bathe themfelves. : 
| ‘There are feveral diforders to which they are 
‘ ) fabject ; fometimes they die in confequence of 
 €ating to excefs, fometimes in moulting: young, 
~ Canary-birds are liable to a complaint in their 
ae inteftines, which become inflamed, and diftended : 
this isa common, and generally a fatal com- 
— plaint, arifing from too great a quantity of food, 
aot frork i its being too moift. Some indifpofitions 
to which they are lubject, proceed from want. of 
a he The pip ig another — ‘the bird 
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