CANARIES 



271 



FIG. 223. Belgian 

 Canary 



canaries carefully bred and trained for singing. But their ex- 

 cellence as singers is not due to breeding and training alone ; 

 the climate of the Harz Mountain region seems to be peculiarly 

 suited to the development of canaries with 

 beautiful voices. The finest Harz Mountain 

 Canaries are produced at St. Andreasberg, a 

 health resort noted for its pure and bracing 

 air. The St. Andreasberg Roller is a canary 

 trained to sing with a peculiar rolling note. 

 Among fancy types of canaries the most 

 interesting are the Norwich Canary, which 

 is larger than the singing canaries and has 

 reddish-yellow plumage ; the Manchester 

 Coppy, a yellow canary almost as large as a 

 small pigeon ; the Lizard Canaries (Silver 

 and Golden), which have spangled markings on the back ; the 

 London F^ancy Canary, which has an orange body with black 

 wings and tail ; and the Belgian Canary, a malformed type in 

 which the head appears to grow out of the breast instead of being 

 carried above the shoulders. 



Place in domestication. Most people who 

 have canaries keep them for pets, and have 

 only a few. In perhaps the greater number 

 of cases a single bird a singer satisfies 

 the canary lover. A few of those who keep 

 canaries as pets also breed them for sale. 

 Occasionally a canary fancier devotes a room 

 in his house entirely to his birds and, when 

 breeding on such a scale, has a great many 

 to sell. The commercial side of canary breed- 

 ing, however, is usually subordinate, except in the Harz Mountain 

 district, where the breeding and training of singing canaries is a 

 very important cottage industry. Canaries from this district are 

 sold all over the civilized world. 



FIG. 224. English 

 Flatheaded Canary 



