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CANARY-BIRD. 
Germany, Italy, and Spain. It is the bird 
known in Burgundy by the name of the Cana- 
ry. It builds upon the ofiers planted along the 
banks of the rivers ; and its neft is formed of 
hair within and mofs without. It is pretty com- 
mon in the environs of Marfeilles and in the 
fouthern provinces of France, but rare in the 
northern. M. Lottinger fays, that in Lorraine 
it is a bird of paffage. 
The prevailing colour of the Venturon , as of 
the Cini t is a yellowifh green on the upper part 
of the body, and greenifh yellow on the belly ; 
but the Cini, which is larger than the Ventu- 
rer!, likewife differs from it in having brown 
fpots, which are longitudinal on the upper 
part of the body, and waved on the under 5 
while in our climates the ordinary colour of the 
Canary-Bird is a uniform citron yellow over 
the whole body even on the belly. This how- 
ever is to be underflood only of the extremi- 
ties of the feathers, all the other parts of them 
are white. i lie female is of a paler yellow than 
the male. But this citron colour, inclining more 
or lefs to white, which the Canary-Bird wears 
in our climates, is not its colour in its native 
place, and it varies according to the tempera- 
ture of the country it inhabits. “ 1 have ob- 
served,” fays one of the ableft Naturalifts *, 
” that the Canary-Bird, which becomes white 
* M. Adanfon, Voyage au Senega], Page 13, 
