68 CANARY-BIRD. 



soon conquer and reduce him to entire 

 submission. He will then immediately 

 mate with them, and ever after be a socia- 

 ble and friendly bird. The union will 

 also be productive of much profit to the 

 fancier, as these forced matches always 

 result in the production of a by far 

 greater number of young birds, than those 

 do whose coupling was attended with 

 little or no difficulty. 



It sometimes happens that you will 

 have a cock-bird who, as soon as the hen 

 lays, will very unnaturally break and eat 

 the egg, and again another who will, 

 immediately upon their hatching, throw 

 the young from the nest, and then pull and 

 drag them with his bill around the cage 

 until they are dead. In the first instance, 

 the following system will soon terminate 

 his egg-eating propensities, which arise 

 either from a want of such kind of food, 

 or a desire to possess the constant society 

 of the hen. You should take a clear egg, 

 which must be carefully blown and then 



