CANARY-BIRD. 
go 
feed ; but rot any of that meat if it be cold 
weather. 
In the Winter-time, when green meat is not 
to be had, or the feafon is too cold to allow it y 
a little fcalded bread, with the water fqueezed 
from it, will be an agreeable regale to your 
birds cnee a-week, and keep their bodies from 
being too much bound up by their -dry feed. 
A dice of a ripe apple or pear, now and 
then duck between the bars of their cage, is 
alfo a fead that their fongs will thank you for. 
Keep always a lump of chalk (too big for the 
birds to pull about) in your breeding place *, 
they will often peck at it, and it will abfcrb 
and dedroy many fharp humours, which caufe 
didempers in them ; and therefore chalk is as 
wholefome for them as it is for the heart-burn^ 
and fome other illneffes in the human body. 
Bufion’s Hiftory of the Canary-Bird. 
If the Nightingale is the chantrefs of the 
woods, the Canary-Bird is the mudcian of the 
chamber : the f rd owes all to nature ; the fe- 
cond derives fomething from our arts : with lefs 
drength of organ, lefs compafs of voice, and 
lefs variety of note, the Canary-Bird has a bet- 
ter ear, greater facility of imitation, more me- 
mory ; and as the difference of genius, efpecial- 
