The bird fancier's recreation. Being curious remarks on the nature of song-birds, with choice instructions concerning the taking, feeding, breeding and teaching them, and how to know the cock from the hen. Also the manner of taking birds with lime-twigs, and the preparations necessary thereto. With an account of the distempers incident to song-birds, and the method to cure them.

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1728
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Bird-fancier's delight. Adaptations.

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London : printed for T. Ward, and sold at his house at the Bell and Bird-Cage, the corner of Silver-street, in Wood-street, near Cripple-Gate, 1728.

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96p. : ill. ; 120.

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ESTC T83859

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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