CANARY-BIRD-. 
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piece of nature which human art can neither 'al- 
ter nor improve ; that of the Canary-Bird is a 
model of more pliant materials, which we can 
mould at pleafure. This lad, therefore, con- 
tributes in a much greater degree to the com- 
forts of fociety j it tings at all feafons ; it chears 
us in the dulled: weather, and even adds to our 
happinefs ; for it amufes the young and delights- 
the reclufe, it charms the tedioufnefs of the- 
cloifler, and exhilarates the foul of the innocent 
and the captive ; its little amours, which we can 
contemplate while we make it breed in our 
cages, have a thoufand times rekindled the dy- 
ing flame of love in hearts where it feemed to 
have been extin guifhdd. Is not this doing as- 
much good as our Vultures do harm ? 
The happy climate of the Canary idands 
ferns to be the native place of this charming 
bird, at lead it feems there to attain its hrigheft 
degree of perfeftion ; for we know that there 
is in Italy a Tpecies much fmaller than that of 
the Canaries, and in Provence another aimed: 
as large : both of thefe are wilder, and may be 
conddered as the docks of dome tamed race. 
Thefe three birds will breed in a date of capti- 
vity ; but in their- native regions they feem to 
propagate without intermixture. They there- 
fore form three permanent varieties, which it 
is proper to didinguifh by three different names, 
that they may. not be confounded.' The- largs . 
