THE CANARY. 



1 have often known every bird bred from a 

 clear pair, to have black feathers in them, 

 owing to the old birds having been bred 

 from such as were not clear. To breed 

 handsome birds, I should recommend a fine 

 junk cock that is clear in feather, and free 

 from green, to be matched with a rich green 

 hen, by which method I have seen produced 

 the finest pied young ones that can pos- 

 sibly be imagined, being remarkably rich 

 in colour. The birds bred in this way are 

 also much stronger than those which are 

 clear in colour, and I have always found 

 them to be the finest songsters. 



A pied junk cock with a pied meally 

 hen, will produce young ones which will 

 be very beautifully marked : care, however, 

 must be taken that they have not too much 

 green in them, as otherwise the young will 

 be too dark in colour, and very often quite 

 green, or dark, which does away with their 

 beauty entirely, although such birds gene- 

 rally prove very stout powerful songsters: 

 still, however, we ought to look towards 

 pleasing the eye as well as ear, and endea- 

 vour to produce not only a good song bird. 



