CANARY-BIRD. IOX 
pagation : it may fuffice for three females ; it 
feeds them on the neft as it does the young. 
The Sifkin and the Gold-Finch are neither ib 
vigorous nor fo attentive, and are content with 
a tingle female Canary-Bird. 
The birds that come from the junction of 
the Cini, the Sifkin, and the Gold-Finch, with 
a hen Canary-Bird, are generally ftronger than 
thole from a cock and hen Canary-Bird. They 
fing longer, their voice is more fonorous and 
flrong, but they are taught with difficulty ; the 
greater part always whittle imperfectly, and one 
is feldom to be found which can repeat a tingle 
air without miffing. 
When we would with to procure birds from 
a mixture of the Gold-Finch with a hen Cana- 
ry-Bird, the former mutt be two years old, and 
the latter one ; becaufe the Canary-Bird comes 
fooner to maturity than the Gold-Finch, and 
in general they fucceed bed when they have 
been bred up together. This, however, is noc 
abfolutely neceffary, and the author of the 
Treatife on Canary-Birds # is miftaken when he 
cautions us againft ufng a hen that has former- 
ly hatched with a cock of its own fpecies, as if 
that would prevent her from receiving the male 
of another fpecies. “ I happened, fays Father 
Bougot, to put four males to eight female Ca- 
nary-Birds ; fome bad feed poilbned three of 
* Iraite des Serins des Canaries, p. 163. 
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