68 CANARY BIRDS. 



house plants went, and there it stood under 

 a beautiful scarlet Thorn, till the first cold 

 days of autumn warned us to take it back 

 to its winter quarters in the hall, near enough 

 to the fire to be kept pretty warm." 



In a cage of this size, if birds of only one 

 or two kinds are kept, there may be as 

 many as ten or a dozen pairs. We generally 

 had a few linnets and goldfinches, and all 

 the rest canaries ; and all these used to pair 

 a good deal, canaries with goldfinches, and 

 so on. 



The two sides being separated by a wire 

 grating, the young birds were often kept in 

 one division, with, perhaps, a party of a dif- 

 ferent kind overhead, their own parents still 

 being kind to them through the dividing 

 bars. 



In the winter, the partitions being opened, 

 the whole number, sixteen or twenty, would 

 live together happily. 



One very good plan to adopt in having 

 this kind of cage, is to have one half made 



