APPENDIX. 



But we may not only improve the notes of birds 

 by a happy mixture, or introduce tbofc which were 

 never before heard in Great Britain ; we may alfo 

 improve the inftrument with which the paiTaaei 

 are executed. 



If, for example, any one is particularly fond of 

 what is called the long of the Canary bird, it 

 would anfwer well to any fuch perfon, if a nettling 

 linnet was brought up under a Canary bird, be- 

 caufe the notes would be the fame, but the inftru- 

 ment which executes them would be improved. 



We learn alio, from thefe experiments, that no- 

 thing is to be expected from a nettling brought 

 up by hand, if he does not receive the proper in- 

 frrudion from the parent cock : much trouble 

 and fome coft is therefore thrown away by many 

 peribns in endeavouring to rear nettling nightin- 

 gales, which, when they are brought up and fed at 

 a very confiderable expence, have no fong which 

 is worth attending to. 



If a woodlark, or Ikylark, was educated, howe- 

 ver, under a nightingale, it follows that this charge 

 (which amounts to a (billing per week *) might be 

 in a great meafure faved, as well as the trouble 

 of chopping frefh meat every day. 



* Oiina fpeaks of a pafte which is ufed in Italy for nightin- 

 gales ; but" I cannot find that ivf ver anfwers with us ; per- 

 haps, they bring their nightingales up bv hand, and fo ac- 

 euftom them from their earJieft infancy to fuch food. 



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