42 CANARY-BIRD. 



soft mixture, before recommended, must 

 now be given to them regularly three 

 times a day, and also the mixed bird-seed 

 every morning, with the addition of a 

 little chick-weed, or cabbage or lettuce 

 leaves. The former must be thoroughly 

 cleaned from any dirt which may adhere 

 to it, and from the large rank leaves, 

 which are always indigestible, coarse, and 

 too often very injurious. In the months 

 of July and August, the birds may be 

 given ripe plantain or salad leaves, feed- 

 ing them always about six o'clock in the 

 morning, twelve at noon, and finally five 

 in the afternoon. Should you make the 

 hours of feeding an hour later or earlier it 

 will make no material difference, provided 

 the same course on each and every suc- 

 ceeding day is strictly observed. The 

 great requisite is regularity. 



During the hot and enervating summer 

 months, they require more particular, and 

 in fact, almost constant attention; the soft 

 food which is put in the cage in the morn- 



