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tificial management, in the fame manner as our common 
poultry *. 
They inhabit, in a wild ftate, the Canary Hflands chiefly, as 
well as fome others ; as Palma, Cape Verd +, Fayal {, Madeira || ; 
and are {aid to frequent watery places. 
Our plan will not allow the taking notice, even in brief, of 
the various methods of rearing thefe birds. This can be fhewn 
only in authors whofe writings are more diffufe; as thofe of 
Buffon, who allows above fifty pages on this bird alone; all of 
which may be read with pleafure and inftru€tion. Wéillughby has 
treated lightly on the fame fubject; as has Albin, in his Hiflory of 
Singing Birds; and others. We will therefore wave the matter, 
further than to obferve, that this bird breeds freely with our two 
next f{pecies, both feemingly congenerous birds; the firft found 
in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Auftria, and Provence; the. other met 
with in the laft-named place, Dauphiny, Lyons, Bugey; Geneva, 
Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and Italy. . 
The Canary-bird will alfo prove fertile with the Siin and 
Goldfinch ; but in this cafe the produce, for the moft part, proves 
frevile: the pairs fucceed beft when the en-bird is the Ca- 
* Twenty-nine varieties are mentioned by name in the Hz/. des cif. pe 103 
and, from what I can learn, many more are reckoned by fanciers in thefe birds. 
+ Hift. des vif. vol. v. 4. p. 35. 45-—If this bird be the Serinus of Kolben, it is 
alfo found at the Cage of Good Hope. This is faid to be of a yellowifh green, 
mixed with grey on the back, and to fing like a Canary-bird.—Kolb. Cape, 
vol. il. p. 156. I have feen the yellow fort, mixed with both brownifh grey 
and greenifh, in Chinefe drawings, frequently; but whether caged birds or not 
could not be certain. 
} Forft. Voy. ii. p. 590. || Fort, O2/. p. 26. 
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