CANARY-BIRD. 
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with the Canary-Bird when in a cage, and then 
too only when there is no bird there of its own 
fpecies. The Sifkin lives as long as the Cana- 
ry-Bird, it accuftoms itfelf to the fame food 
with lefs repugnance than the Gold-Finch. 
I have alfo put Linnets and Canary-Birds to- 
gether ; but they will feldom breed except the 
cock Linnet be put with the hen Canary-Bird ; 
the female Linnet will not even make a neft, 
but drops a few eggs in the cage, which are 
generally addle. I know this by experience, as 
I have often made the hen Canary-Bird fit on 
them without effect. 
“ The Chaffinch and Yellow-Hammer are 
with great difficulty made to pair with the Ca- 
nary-Bird. 1 left a female Yellow-Hammer 
with a male Canary for three years, the hen 
laid only addle eggs : it is the fame with the 
female Chaffinch ; but the cock Chaffinch and 
Yellow-Hammer with the hen Canary-Bird have 
produced fome fertile eggs.” 
It follows from thefe facts, and fome others 
which 1 have collected, that among all thefe 
birds the Sifkin alone will breed with the Ca- 
nary-Bird equally well, whether male or fe- 
male : the hen Canary-Bird produces, likewife, 
eafily enough with the male Gold-Finch •, not 
quite fo eafily with the male Linnet : and, laft- 
ly, it will breed, though more difficultly, with 
the males of the Chaffinch, the Yellow-Ham- 
