So 
CANARY-BIRD 1 . 
low he is on the belly, the handfomer he will r 
be e deemed. 
Thefe general characters are equally requisite 
in the hen as in the cock ; betides which, the 
breeder is to be informed of a cafual variety in 
fancy birds, which are all diflinguithed either as 
mealies or junks : the meally birds being thofe 
whofe crown and bellies are of a clean white or 
pale yellow ; and the junks, whofe crown and 
bellies are of a deep yellow. It is a handing 
rule among good breeders never to match two 
meally or two junk birds together ; and fkillful 
bird-fanciers will decide at once upon a bird fo 
bred. 
The fine fpangled fort above-mentioned, com- 
monly called French Canary-Birds, and the 
meally ones, are the heft to breed with for thofe 
who are very curious ; becaufe a fpangled cock 
with a meally hen will produce a more regular 
fpangled feather than if cock and hen were 
both fpangled, for then they would breed too 
high upon the yellow. 
Pair fuch a fpangled cock with a meally hen' 
in a cage by themfelves, rather than a meally 
cock with a fpangled hen ; becaufe the young 
ones take mcftly after the cock-bird in their fear 
thers. 
Gray birds will breed full as well as any, for 
thofe who care not what coloured birds the* 
