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not, I suspect, a general truth. There is, surely, probability 

 that the Canary has a song of its own. 



1 am, however, indebted to Mr. Yarrel for the following 

 particulars of the domesticated Canary-Bird, of which he has 

 several eggs, produced by the genuine 8pecies, without any ad- 

 mixture. 



" Whatever the materials are of which the Canary forms its 

 nest, or what the colour of its eggs in its native islands, I do 

 not know ; but, in this country (having bred them myself), they 

 make a compact nest of moss and wool closely interwoven, very 

 similar to the nest of the Linnet and the Redpole j the egg is also 

 very like that of the Linnel^ but somewhat smaller, the ground 

 colour white, slightly tinged with green, spotted and streaked 

 with dark red at the larger end ; in number four or five. 



" However domestication may change the feather, I have no 

 reason to believe that it produces any alteration in the colour 

 of the egg; and, in this instance, both the nest and eggs agree 

 closely with the other species of the genus to which the Canary 

 belongs. 



*' Domestication, though continued for years, produces no 

 chaugp. in the eggs of phpasants, &c. &-c." 



The Canary has been known to breed in confinement in this 

 country six or eight times a year ! 



While the Man akin murmured a tremulous song. 

 The Mocking-bird followed with music aloncj. 



