Bie Ju) Nee Cae i. 
nary, and the cock of the oppofite fpecies *. It will alfo prove 
prolific with the Linnet, Yellow-hammer, Chaffinch, and even the 
Houfe Sparrow +3 but the male Canary-bird will not affimilate 
with the female of thefe birds; the bem muft be ever of the 
Canary fpecies, and the young of thefe moftly prove mule birds. 
As to the fong, fo highly prized by many, it is alfo needlefs 
here to dwell upon. Whoever may wifh to read what is faid on 
the fubjeét of this or other finging birds, need only confult a 
well-written treatife by our friend the Hon. Daines Barringtont, 
on this fubject. 
This bird is faid by fome to live ten or fifteen years || ; by 
others, as far as eighteen §. One of them, now alive, has already 
been in the poffeffion of a friend of mine thirteen years. _ 
® When a male Canary-bird is matched to the hen Goldfinch, or Sifein, it is 
not without certain precautions, and great attention, that a brood will follow. 
On the contrary, when the ma/e of either of the two laft-mentioned birds is 
made ufe of, the fuccefs is almoft certain. 
+ A female Canary-bird of the grey kind, which efcaped from a cage, has 
been known to pair with a Honfe Sparrow, and to bring a brood in a dird-pot 
placed againft an houfe. — Hi/?. des oi/. iv. p. 11. note (p).——A few Cazary- 
birds t at have efcaped from an aviary, feem to have bred; as fuch are fre- 
quently feen, with other fmall birds, in the hedges at Puddington, in Bedfordfbire. 
—See Bib). Typogr. Brit. N° 8. p. 13. arte 35. The circumftance alfo has 
occurred of the Cazary-bird breeding with the Vengoline.—See Barrington on 
Singing Birds. Phil. Tranf vol. \xiii. 1773. Br. Zool. ii. p, 666. 
t See Phil. Tranf. vol. lxiii. or Br. Zool, vol. ii. 4pp.N° 5. 
|| Olina, § Salerne. 
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