THE CANARY. IS 



young ones will be hatched in fourteen days 

 from the day she begins setting. 



Care must be taken to put some bread, 

 and hard boiled egg, grated very fine, and 

 mixed with a little maw seed into the cage, 

 together with some groundsel, as it will 

 entice the hen to feed her young : — I recom- 

 mend groundsel which is most gone to 

 seed for the first meat, as the chickweed is 

 not ripe enough at the beginning of the 

 breeding season, and being too green to 

 give them, it is apt to swell them. I have 

 known many fine nests of birds lost, through 

 giving the old birds too much green meat to 

 feed their young with. 



The best plan is, to make it a rule to feed 

 those old birds which have young ones 

 twice a day ; first, early in the morning, and 

 then again in the afternoon, giving the hen 

 time enough to feed her young ones before 

 it be too dark. The young ones ought not 

 to be disturbed by looking at them till they 

 are two or three days old, when the hen 

 must be watched off her nest: the young 

 ones must be put up again in the same 

 direction as soon as possible, whilst the hen 



