62 THE ROLLER CANARY 
seen that, in order to obtain a large percentage of good 
results among the birds, it is necessary they should be 
coached by capable tutors. 
WHAT CONSTITUTES BEAUTY OF SONG 
The fundamental tours of a Canary’s song are not 
the only elements of a good performance, but what con- 
stitutes beauty is the order of sequence of the tours, the 
manner in which they pass one over the other, the 
bridging over, as it were, the modulation, and the 
general connectivity, for it is all this that goes to make up 
a fine song and enhance its value. 
Mark well, absence of faults, or faulty delivery, does 
not indicate value, but what does is method and style 
of delivery. 
These special attributes are learnt from the tutor if 
the young birds are fortunate enough to be brought into 
contact with one such. It is through the scarcity of 
tutors on the one hand, and the excessive number of 
scholars on the other, that so few birds turn out first-class 
songsters. 
When a large number of young birds are on the racks, 
and the tutor is leading, it is not possible to give them 
a proper hearing, so much does their warbling drown 
the song of the old birds. It cannot therefore be expected 
that one single youngster is capable of taking up the 
song of his tutor when these tours of a quality so neces- 
sary for him to study are overborne by the efforts of the 
large number around him. The result is that, though 
the tutor plods on, his efforts are lost, as not one single 
cock hears him properly. 
If, in order to surmount this difficulty, several tutors 
