The complete bird-fancyer, or bird-fancyer's recreation. Containing The very best instructions for taking, catching, feeding, breeding, and rearing, All Sorts of Song-Birds; particularly, Canary-Birds, Nightingales, Larks, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, &c. Together with an account of all their distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Also the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. By George Wright, who has made the rearing Birds his Diversion near Twenty Years. The Lovers of Harmony reading this Book, May the Moments of Pleasure prolong, For here we are taught by the Feather and Look, To judge of the Bird and the Song.

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[1795?]