APPENDIX. 70; 



But we may not only improve the notes of birds 

 by a happy mixture, or introduce thofe which were 

 never before heard in Great Britain \ we may alfo 

 improve the inftrument with which the pajTages 

 are executed. 



If, for example, any one is particularly fond of 

 what is called the fong of the Canary bird, it 

 would anfwer well to any fuch perfon, if a nettling 

 linnet was brought up under a Canary bird, jbe- 

 caufe the notes would be the fame, but the inflru- 

 ment which executes them would be improved, 



We learn alfo, from thefe experiments, that no- 

 thing is to be expe&ed from a neftling brought 

 up by hand, if he does not receive the proper in- 

 ftrudtion from the parent cock : much trouble 

 and fome coft is therefore thrown away by many 

 perfons in endeavouring to rear nettling nightin- 

 gales, which, when they are brought up and fed at 

 a very confiderable expence, have no fong which 

 is worth attending to. 



If a woodlark, or ikylark, was educated, howe- 

 ver, under a nightingale, it follows that this charge 

 (which amounts to a milling per week *) might be 

 in a great mealure faved, as well as the trouble 

 of chopping frefh meat every day. 



* Olina fpeaks of a pafte which is ufed in Italy for nightin f 

 gales -, but I cannot find that it ever anfwers with us ; per- 

 haps, they bring their nightingales up by hand, and fo ac~ 

 suftom them from their earlieft infancy to fuch food. 



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