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singing- birds, I have touciied but lightly 

 on a subject which would be of no fur- 

 ther use than to swell out the work, and 

 cause a consequent augmentation of price, 

 the diminution of which has been my most 

 earnest endeavour throughout the whole of 

 this treatise. 



Neither have I made any attempt at a 

 scientific arrangement, but have given the 

 description, together with the directions for 

 the rearing and management of each bird, 

 just as I wrote them, beginning with the 

 canary, on which I have been as explicit as 

 possible, concealing nothing that could be in 

 the smallest degree serviceable to those who 

 keep and breed these birds, either for profit 

 or amusement. I have also had drawings 

 made and engraved from four of the most 

 perfect birds I could possibly procure, in or- 

 der to show the manner of matching them ; 



