CANARIES AND OTHER CAGE-BIRD FRIENDS 



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the old ones. The en- 

 hanced color is due to 

 an element taken 

 from the pepper and 

 remains until the next 

 change of feathers. 



Most birds eat the 

 color food greedily 

 and those that do not 

 seem to care for it at 

 first are usually quick 

 to acquire a taste for 

 it if the ordinary food 

 supply is cut down for 

 a day or two. 



PET BIRDS SHARE 

 CAMPS OF SAVAGES 



Although the ca- 

 nary is the most pop- 

 ular, thousands of 

 persons delight in 

 the companionship of 

 many other kinds of 

 small birds. 



Birds as pets are 

 found with the most 

 primitive of people. 

 Around any aborigi- 

 nal hunter's camp one 

 may see live birds of 

 various kinds, ordi- 

 narily young ones that 

 have been picked up 

 in the wild after the 

 parent birds have 

 been killed or on 

 chance encounters. 



Often these birds 

 live in a state of com- 

 plete freedom, wan- 

 dering in and out of 

 tents or huts at will 

 and securing much of 

 their own food. Even- 

 tually some may be 

 eaten, some may re- 

 turn presently to the wild, while others live 

 content with the companionship of man. 



It is such circumstances, without ques- 

 tion, that led, hundreds of years ago, to the 

 domestication of the fowl, turkey, duck, 

 goose, and pigeon, which now have such 

 great value in the life of man.* 



A FEW FEATHERED PERSONALITIES 



Captive birds in primitive regions in- 

 clude manv that are not suited for more set- 



TIERS OF CANARIES DRINK 



I'hotusrai.ii I 



WATER BY THE 



■^wint^ Gallo\v;i>' 

 TUBFUL 



From the tin tub an attendant fills the bottle, then thrusts the nozzle 

 into a water dish within one of the wicker cages in which the birds 

 travel. Hundreds of canaries, one to a "compartment" and almost all 

 males, are stacked in a German warehouse awaiting shipment to markets 

 throughout the w'orld. "Sticks" of six or seven cages are held together by 

 a flat strip of wood run through the tops of the barred cells and fastened at 

 each end with wooden pins. 



tied sections. Tn the Gran Chaco of South 

 America a baby rhea brought to me by an 

 Anguete Indian immediately adopted me 

 and was so intent on being close beside me 

 that I never succeeded in getting a good pho- 

 tograph of it because it was always too near 



* See, in the N.^tioxal Geugr.^piiic Mag.azine, 

 "Fowls of Forest and Stream Tamed by Man," and 

 "Races of Domestic Fowl," both by Morley .A. 

 Jull, March, 19,30, and April, 1927, respectively; 

 and "Man's Feathered Friends of Longest Stand- 

 ing," by Elisha Hanson, January, 1926. 



