The new and complete bird-fancyer [electronic resource] : or bird-fancyer's recreation and delight. Containing the newest and very best instructions for catching, taking, feeding, rearing, &c. all the various sorts of song-birds, Particularly, Nightingales, Larks, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, Canary-Birds, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, &c. &c. Including, among other Particulars, A full Account of all their several Distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Likewise the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. Together with Many other useful Particulars relative to Singing Birds, too numerous to mention in a Title-Page. The whole revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Thompson, Late Gardener to the Duke of Ancaster, and Author of New Gardeners Calendar; who has made the Management of Birds his favourite Study upwards of Twenty Years. Assisted by the most eminent Fancyers. Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece, elegantly designed and executed.