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Title: A natural history of English song-birds : and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing : to which are added, figures of the cock, hen and egg, of each species, exactly copied from nature
Year: 1737 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar Albin, Eleazar
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Publisher: Cambridge : British Antarctic Survey Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater-noster-Row, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ms inhis Meat, the better to intice him, that fo hemay eat fome of the Sheeps Heart by littleand little, and when you perceive him to eatfreely, give him the leis Ants, &c. m hisMeat, arid at laft, nothing but Sheeps Heartand Egg. You fliould take fome of this Meatwith you when you go to catch Nightingales^and in an Hour oi: two after they are taken,you muft Force them to eat, by Openingtheir Mouth and Craming them, taking Carethat their Meat be not too dry; moiften itwith fprinkling a little clean Water lipon it,as you prepare it. Remember when you firfttake a Bird to clear his Vent from Feathers,by pulling, or cutting them off, otherwilehe will be fubjeft to Clog and Bake up hisVent, which is fiidden De^th. Birds that arelong a feeding, and make no Curring 6iSweeting for eight or ten Days, feldom provegood; but on the contrary, they give greathopes of proving well wheii they take theirMeat kindly, and are familiar, and riot buc-Icifh; and ling quickly, and learn t6 eaif of them-
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/f;^ i/x ia. Jft^/i^tut^^^Ue^, ^^cJc, iZ^tU JjTen,. Englifii Singing-Birds. 77 ,themfelves without much Trouble. This i$a fare Toking of their proving excellent Birds jwhen they will feed in a few Hours, or thenext bay after they are^ taken, and (ing in two©r three Days; thofenever prove bad. Youmuft tie the Wings of the Bird no longerthan till he is grown tame. Of the Red-Grosbeak, Or the Virginia-Nightingale, called like-iniffy the Red^Bird. The Difcription and CharaBer. IT is near as big as the common Song-7hurfh:The Bafis of his Bill is encompalTed witha 13order of black Feathers Reaching to theEyes: It hath a large Head adorned with ahigh towering Creft, of a bright Scarlet Co-lour, as is alfo the whole Bird, except theBack, fome Part of the Wings and the Tail,which are of a more Dirty and Brownifli-red.Thefe Birc^s are brought from Virgin)ay NewEngland^ and other Parts of North Jmerica,where they catch them as we do Larks inEngland^ by fweeping away the Snow, andbaiting the Pl^

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