1 8 CANAR T BIRDS. 



will set all to rights in a moment ;" and all 

 experience goes to show that this amiability 

 of disposition is quite characteristic of this 

 bird of the Fortunate Isles, whose nature 

 appears to be as sunny and genial as the 

 clime from which it originally came. 



It is sometimes extremely difficult to get 

 newly -captured birds to eat at all, partly 

 because that which is offered to them is not 

 quite what they have been accustomed to, 

 and partly, no doubt, on account of grief at 

 their loss of liberty, and fear arising out of 

 the strange scenes and circumstances amid 

 which they find themselves. They will not 

 unfrequently refuse to take any nourish- 

 ment, and will inevitably pine and die if 

 some means are not taken to induce them to 

 art. Dr. Meyer, of Offenbach, communi- 

 cated to Bechstein the following mode of 

 .getting over this difficulty. Place the bird 

 in the cage in which it is intended to keep 

 iit, with plenty of the proper food and drink 

 an open vessels ; let it remain undisturbed 



