CANARY BIRDS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE CANARY FINCH, 



by Linnaeus, Fringilla Canaria, 

 because it first came, as is generally 

 supposed, from the Canary Isles, where the 

 species is still found in abundance, singing 

 very sweetly, although not, perhaps, so 

 scientifically as their richly-attired and bet- 

 ter instructed relations. Voyagers tell us 

 that these wild birds of the Canary Isles 

 have mostly gray plumage, and this tint 

 prevails to a considerable extent in some of 

 the domesticated varieties, which are rather 

 numerous. White, gray, yellow, green, and 



