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 / by Mr. Eleazar Albin ... Also a particular account how to order the canary-birds in breeding; likewise their diseases and cures.

Albin, Eleazar, active 1713-1759.

Date:: 1741

Credit: 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 / by Mr. Eleazar Albin ... Also a particular account how to order the canary-birds in breeding; likewise their diseases and cures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Time, two or three {mall Bits only; begin to feed them about Sun-rifing, and continue after this Manner till Sun-fetting: Let them have frefh Victuals every Day, or every other . Day at fartheft; when you have fed them a Month, or thereabouts, begin to break them from this foft Meat, by giving them a little Canary-Seed, and foft Meat befides; when - you find they feed pretty freely upon the Seed, keep them conftantly to that Diet; tho’ they will eat Hemp-Seed, and fome “other Kinds of Seed, yet J never ‘found it agree fo well with them as the Canary. If a young Goldfinch be brought up under the Canary-Bird, the Wood-Lark, or any other fine finging Bird, he will take their Song very readily: Iam told’ of a Lady that has one of © _thefe Birds, at this prefent Time, that will talk very finely. A Cock-Bird, bred from the Nett, will couple with a Hen Canary-Bird, and pro- duce a Bird between both Kinds; -Pattaking * of the Song, and Colours of both. - — The Length of a full-grown Bird, from five Inches and a Half; of which the Jatter is two, and the former a little more than Half an Inch long; when in Flefh the Bird weight se cat Se =] ie” ine Bers: , s ; This, oatg tone ae$

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