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is nearly always successful. The room 

 should have a table in the centre, well 

 supplied with deer's or cow's hair, moss 

 and wool, or tow, for the making of nests, 

 the seeds and food of different kinds most 

 suitable at that season, and water in 

 fountains and pans, the first for drinking, 

 the last for bathing. The floor should be 

 entirely covered with fine red gravel or 

 coarse sand, and neat round perches be 

 run from one side of the room to another, 

 or the limbs of a dead tree placed in 

 various positions for them to perch upon. 

 They should also have fastened in some 

 part of the room, where it will be easy 

 of access, pieces of the bones of the 

 "Osepia or Cuttle-fish;" a thing which 

 Canaries should never be without at any 

 season of the year, much less in the 

 breeding season. This can be obtained 

 constantly at the various seed-warehouses 

 of the city, or in country towns at the 

 various apothecary shops. The window 

 of the room should be fitted with a neat 



