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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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th clean Straw, or Mofs at the Bot-tom, and give them fometimes clean Waterto Wafh themfelves in ; this is the moft lureMethod to have good healthful Birds, fuch aswill Reward your Trouble in bringing themup. The Starlingy when wild, feeds uponBeetles, Worms, and other Infects. The Length of a full grown Bird, fromthe tip of his Bill to the end of his Tail, isnine Inches; of which the Bill is an Inchand a Quarter, and the Tail three Incheslong; and when in Flelh, v/eighs about threeOunces. The Bird is naturally, hardy and Health-ful ; but when kept in a Cage, is lubject tothe Cramp, Fits, (^c. fometimes it feizes himfo fuddenly, that he will fall down from hisPearch and beat himfelf to Death prefently ;a Spider, or Meal-worm is a good Remedyagainft it, giving him two or three at a Time,twice or thrice a Week. If you give himgood Meat and Drink, as I faid by the Black-birdy and keep him clean, it will prevent hisFits, or any other Diforder, better than anyThing elle that 1 know off. Of
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^lU/^mA, &ck, .^e?i, and /*aa. Engliili Singing-Birds. 15 Of the Bullfinch. The Vefcription and CharaBer. DULLFINCHES zre fo called from^ their Heads, which are Black, and forthe Proportion of their Bodies large : In IbmePlaces in England^ they are called Nofes^ inothers, Thick-biUs^ and in fome Hoopi: Thislaft Name they have, probably, from theirwild hooping fort of a Note. They are verydocile Birds, the Hen Learning after the Pipeor Whiftle, as well as the Cock, having noSong of their own, but what is taught them,in which they excel moft Birds • and thepeculiar Rarity of thefe Birds is, that theynever forget what they have once learnt, thethey hang among ever fo many Birds: Somehave been taught to fpeak feveral Words atCommand : Tis a Bird much efteemed inEngland^ both for Beauty and Singing; anddeftrvedly in my Judgment; for, in the for-mer, he equals, and in the latter, when welltaught, excells ail fmall Birds ; they haveb^en frequently fold from five to ten Guineasa Bird, T

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