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CANARY BIRDS. 



Booker, it will be well to take the young birds which have 

 remained alone in the nests, out of them, and to place them 

 there where the others sit closely pressed together and 

 mutually warming each other ; the sitting-poles (page 58) 

 must be placed throughout the space in gradual elevation, so 

 that the birds cannot sally one another. The nests are 

 generally put into small Hartz-cages which are fastened 

 plentifully to the walls at a distance of, at least, 12 inches 

 from each other, not concealed in the bushes, and yet not 

 fixed in places where there is too much light, in such a 

 manner that the birds cannot pull them down. It will be 

 found, moreover, that all canaries will, from preference, 

 choose the highest nests, and it will therefore be advisable 

 to place all nests at the greatest possible elevation. 



The cages for Dutch canaries, which during breeding are 



BREEDING CAGES. 



very quiet and often very weakly, and are usually bred in 

 separate cages, need only be of a simple quadrangular shape 

 with a gently vaulted roof, and with the same appointments 

 as those used for single songsters, only they should be double 

 the size of the former. Better still, for the purpose of 



