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Finch, the Linnet, the Yellow-Hammer, the 
Chaffinch; it is even faid that it will produce 
with the Sparrow. Thefe fpecies of birds, ah 
though very different, and to appearance very 
remote from that of the Canary-Bird, will, not- 
withftanding, unite with it and breed, if proper 
care and precaution be ufed in pairing them. 
The firft thing neceffary is to feparate the Ca- 
nary-Birds from all thofe of their own fpecies 5 
and the fecond is, to employ the female rather 
than the male. I have been affured that the 
hen Canary-Bird will produce with all the a* 
bove-mentioned birds •, but it is not equally cer- 
tain that the cock will unite with the females 
of thofe birds. The Sifkin and the Gold-Finch 
are the only ones that feem to have their ferti- 
lity with the cock Canary-Bird authenticated. 
The following was written to me on the fubjeff 
by a friend of mine, a man of experience -and 
probity : 
“ I have thefe thirty years amufed myfelf in 
rearing a number of fmall birds, and I have 
particularly attended to the method of breeding 
them ; it is therefore from repeated experience 
and obfervation that I am enabled to affert the 
following fafts. When a perfon wifhes to pai*r 
the Canary-Bird with the Golcl-Finch, he muff 
take young Gold-Finches, of ten or twelve days 
old, from the neft, and put them in a neft with 
Canaries of the fame age. He muft feed them 
