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APPENDIX. 



Nothing, however, can be more marked than 

 the note of a nightingale called its jug, which 

 mod of the Canary birds brought from the Tyrol 

 commonly have, as well as feveral nightingale^?™^, 

 or particular paffages in the fong of that bird. 



I mention this fuperior knowledge in the inhabi- 

 tants of the capital, becaufe I am convinced, that, 

 if others are confulted in relation to the finging of 

 birds, they will only miflead, inftead of giving any 

 material or ufeful information * 



Birds in a wild (late do not commonly fing a- 

 bove ten weeks in the year •, which is then alfo con- 

 fined to the cocks of a few fpecies ; I conceive, 

 that this laft circumftance arifes from the fuperior 

 ftrength of the mufcles of the larynx- 



Tyrol, have been educated by parents, the progenitor of 

 which was inftru&ed by a nightingale ; our Englijh Canary 

 birds have commonly more of the titlark note. 



The traffick in thefe birds makes a fmall article of com- 

 merce, as four Tyrokze generally bring over to England fix- 

 teen hundred every year ; and though they carry them on 

 their backs one thoufand miles, as well as pay 20 1. duty for 

 fuch a number, yet, upon the whole, it anfwers to fell thefe 

 birds at 5 s. a piece. 



The chief place for breeding Canary birds is Infpruch and 

 its environs, from whence they are fent to Cwjiantinople, as 

 well as every part of Europe. 



* As it will not anfwe.r to catch birds with clap-nets 

 any where but in the neighbourhood of London, moft of the 

 birds which may be heard in a country town are neftlings, 

 and confequently cannot fmg the fuppofed natural fong in any 

 perfection. 



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