32 THE ROLLER CANARY 
Place the tutor in the room amongst the young 
cocks, and you will be surprised how quickly they settle 
down to their new life in the small cages. 
After a week or two, according to their progress, put 
a partition between the cages, but should they be too 
restless take the partition away again for a few days. If 
not, leave them and watch and listen to their song, or 
rather twittering. 
WATCH AND TAKE NOTES 
Now is the time to watch your young stock. Take 
all the ring numbers and have them on the cages, also 
make a list with the ring numbers on, and have it always 
handy when you listen to your birds. Those which sing 
(twitter) with closed beak mark “‘ good” or “‘ deep” on 
your list, others which sing with open beak mark 
“noisy” or “high.” You can hear them when they 
are ever so young. Ina deep bird you can see the throat 
move and only a roll comes out of it, but if you hear a 
lot of “‘ S—sis,”’ you can put him down as high. 
Put the deep ones together and also the high ones, 
but do not take them away altogether, as you must listen 
for another week or two before you send them away to 
another tutor. Keep on marking your list from one 
week to another ; you can partly tell after a few days 
which bird will be your champion, also put down on 
your list which bird always sings first. 
After a few weeks you begin to distinguish the 
different Rolls or Glucks, and you must mark the tones 
on another list. Just mark it H.R., B.R., W.GL., or 
H.B., and so on, and you will find the birds you marked 
early on your list as deep or high, as the case may be, 
