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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
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the Birds: When theybegin to feed themfelves, break them fromthis Ibft Meat as foon as you can; then givethem Rape and Canary-feed, the fame as youdo the Linnety but more of the former thanthe latter. If at any Time you perceive themout of Order, put a blade of Saffron in theirWater; and you may try them with theWoodlarKs Meat, or fine Hemp-feed, butkeep moftly to Rape^ with a little Canary-feed mixd with it. You muft remember often to Pipe, Whiftle,or Talk to them, whilft they are young,what your are minded they ftiould learn, andyou will find them loon take it. A Bullfinch at full Growth is fix Incheslong, from Point of Bill to the End of theTail, of which the Tail is two Inches : InWeight thirteen Drams. Of the Goldfinch^ Which in fome Places^ from its feeding inWinter Time on the Seeds of Thijiles,cailedy Thiftle-finch ^ The Defcription and CharaBer, IT is every where in England well kno-fvn,and highly eftecmed both for Singing andfor the Elegancy of its Colours, being cer-tainly
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-«:-^^^^; (foidfirwA, foci, J/r?t, arh Englifh Singing-Birds. i^ tainly the moft Beautiful and Fineft.featheredof all Cage Birds: A Ring of curious Scar-let-coloured Feathers encompaffes the Fore-part of his Head, or Bafis of the Bill; andfrom the Eyes to the Bill on each Side, isdrawn a black Line; the Jaws are White,the Top of the Head Black, from which a-broad black Line is produced on both Sides,almoft to the Neck; the hinder Part of theHead is White; the Neck and Fore-part ofthe Back are of a reddilh Afti-colour; theRump, Breaft, and Sides of the fame, but alittle Paler; the Belly whicifh; the W-ingsand Tail Black, only the Tips of the princi-pal Feathers in both are White; befides, theWings are adorned with a moft beautifulTranfverfe Stroak of Yellow or Gold-colour.I ftiould not ha ire been fo Particular in de-fcribing the Colours of this Bird, but I thinkthe great Variety that Nature has paintedit with, wherein it excels all fmall Birds,at leaft what are found in thefe Parts o

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