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CANARY-BIRD. 
head. There are variegated individuals with 
ail the fimple colours we have mentioned, but 
tr.ofe of the jonquil colour only are variegated 
with black. 
\\ nen individuals of an uniform colour are 
paired together, their young are of the fame 
coiour : a cock and hen that are grey generally 
produce grey birds: but if a male grew is put 
to a female white, or a male white to a female 
grey, the brood will be more beautiful than the 
parents - and as the numbers that may be crcf- 
!cd by fuch combinations are. inexhauftible, we 
can at ail times produce varieties in fhadc and 
imt that have not before appeared. The mix- 
tures that may be made of the fpangled birds 
with thofe of an uniform colour increafe hill 
jnore the number of combinations that may be 
produced ; and thus varieties in the ipecies may 
be multiplied to infinity, ft likewife often hap- 
pens, mat without the a (lift a nee of the fancy- 
mrdq we have pretty little variegated birds 
winch owe their beauty to the mixture of the 
coherent colours in their parents or their pro- 
genitors, fome of which, either on their father 
< r mother’s fide, may have been variegated. 
"Vvith regard to the mixture of other fpecics 
with the Canary-Bird, 1 have colledled the fol- 
lowing obfervations : Of the whole fpecies, the 
Cmi or green Canary has the ftrongeft pipe ; it 
is is the moft vigorous and mod ardent for pro- 
