CANARY-BIRD. 
IO4 
are ftronger, which have a more piercing note, 
and a longer breath than Canaries of the pure 
fpecies, likewife live longer. But there is one 
conftant obfervation which relates to both ; and 
that is, the oftener they hatch, the more they 
abridge the period of their lives. A cock Ca- 
nary-Bird reared alone, and deprived of any 
intercourfe with a hen, generally lives thirteen 
or fourteen years ; a mongrel proceeding from 
the Gold-Finch in the fame circum fiances, will 
live eighteen or even nineteen years. A mon- 
grel from the Sifkin will live fifteen or fixteen 
years ; while the cock Canary-Bird, that has 
been accuftomed to one or more females, lives 
only ten or eleven years, and the mongrel from 
the Gold-Finch fourteen or fifteen years. It is 
necefTary, moreover, to feparate them from the 
females immediately after the hatching feafon, 
that is, from the month of Auguft to March ; 
otherwife their paffion fo exhaufts them, that 
their lives are ltill fhorter by two or three 
vears. 
/ 
In the lower animals, as well as in man, even 
in our fmall birds, the diverfity of character, 
or if you will, of moral qualities, often injures 
the confonance of phyfical qualities. If any 
thing could prove that the difpofition is a good 
or bad impreflion given by nature, which edu- 
cation cannot alter, it would be the inflance of 
our Canary-Birds. “ Aimoft every one of 
