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especially certain sparrow and finch kinds. There are now 

 numerous domesticated races which vary structurally in 

 color-pattern a'fe well as in voice. Many of the characters 

 resemble the ruffs, crests, and other plumage eccentricities 

 of pigeons. The principal place of canary bird breeding 

 at present is in the Harz Mountains of Germany. 



Tamed cormorants are used by the Chinese and Japanese 

 as fishing birds, somewhat as falcons were used in days of 



Fig. 146. Wild jungle fowls, Callus bankiva, of India. 'After Brown.) 



old as hunting birds. Indeed in these same days cormorants 

 were used for sport. Charles I of England had a "master of 

 the cormorants." Nowadays, however, cormorant fishing 

 is a practical means of gaining food. A ring is placed about 

 the neck of each bird so as to prevent it from swallowing 

 the fish it catches. Several different species of cormorants 

 are thus used. 



The ostrich is the most recent addition to the ranks of 

 domesticated birds. The tamed species is derived directly 

 from the widely distributed African ostrich, Struthio camelus. 



Besides mammals and birds two or three species of fish, 

 such as the carp and goldfish, may be called domesticated. 



