78 CANARY-BIRD. 



but two, while others build three or four, 

 and frequently, under judicious manage- 

 ment, as many as six in a single spring and 

 summer, producing from four to six eggs 

 in each nest. When the fancier is pos- 

 sessed of a strong stock of birds, by care- 

 ful feeding and close attention, he will 

 readily render them almost beyond price, 

 as each pair will, in such case, produce 

 from twenty to thirty, and sometimes even 

 thirty-five eggs, in the course of the breed- 

 ing months. 



The best mode of ascertaining the good- 

 ness of eggs, is, after the hen has set for 

 a week, to take and place them betwixt 

 your eye and the light. Those which are 

 fit to be continued under the hen will 

 appear thick, opaque and muddled, while 

 the bad will be perfectly translucent. The 

 latter may then be thrown away, and the 

 good either given to another hen, or re- 

 stored, with the addition from another 

 nest of the wanting number, to their 

 former situation. This will be found the 



