CANARY-BIRD. 8 1 
breed, fo they have but young ones •, they being 
the heft nurfes. 
The white birds are quite the worth to breed 
with, being very rarely good nurfes ; and 
therefore, let the birds you breed with beEng- 
lifh-bred birds, and not from the Germans, 
their birds agreeing but indifferently with our 
climate to breed in. 
The Canary-Bird is a gentle familiar animal, 
and will breed very kindly under due manage- 
ment : that is, if they are provided with con- 
venient cages, proper neceffaries, are kept clean, 
and are not interrupted from time to time by 
the prying eyes of impertinent curiofity, or of- 
ficious care. The hazards of their own mis- 
management admitting of no companion with 
the dangers they are expoled to from over- 
nurfing. In fir or t, the beft general rule that 
can be given, is to fupply them with every ne- 
ceffary at due times, and then to interfere as 
little as poffible in their domeilic ceconomy 0 
jl he hens geneially lit four times in a ieafon 3 
but if a ben fits upon a due number of eggs 
three times, flic fhould not be permitted to 
build again, without fhe appears yet ftrong and 
hearty ; for they will fometimes die on the 
fourth neft during laying, or fall fo weak as not 
to complete the fitting. 
About the beginning of March, if the Spring 
be mild, or later, in proportion to its fe verity, 
