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feather. This will allay the irritation 

 and inflammation. 



SCABS ON THE HEAD. This is a mis- 

 chievous sickness which occasionally at- 

 tacks Canaries, for which the best remedy 

 is light and cooling food; such as rape and 

 lettuce-seed, &c. and repose. Time and 

 nature are here the only, as they are 

 everywhere the best, physicians. 



RED MITES. Canaries are frequently 

 infested with these dangerous and trouble- 

 some insects, the symptoms of whose pre- 

 sence, is the bird's pluming and feathering 

 himself at all hours of the day. The cage, 

 when this is discovered, should be scrubb- 

 ed out thoroughly, and the shoulders of 

 the perches, and every crack and crevice 

 examined carefully, as the mites always 

 breed in such situations. 



DlARRHCEA, OR LOOSENESS. This is a 



very common sickness with the Canary, 

 which may readily be cured by the gentle 

 application of a little sweet almond or 

 olive oil to their bellies, and being fed 



