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CANARY-BIRD. 
barous as to break and eat the eggs when the 
hen has laid them ; or if this unnatural father 
allows her to hatch, the young are. hardly ex- 
cluded from the fhell, than he feizes them 
with his bill, drags them from the neft and kills 
themf. Some are fo wild, lavage, and ungo- 
moured. Thefe forced marriages fqmetimes fucceed better 
than others from which much more has been expected, and 
which often produce nothing-. In order to preferve the 
brood, you mull take away the eggs as the hen lays them, 
and fubftitute others of ivory; and when they are all laid, 
the cock muft he removed, the eggs replaced, and the hen 
left to hatch them. The cock is to be kept in a cage, in the 
fame room, while the hen is fitting on her eggs, and feeding 
the young; hut as foon as you take away the young to feed 
them with a ftick, you muft relieve the cock, and reftore 
him to the female. 
Traite des Serins des Canaries. 
f There are fome cocks of a weakly habit, carelefs of love, 
and always fickly after pairing. Thefe Ihould never be ufcd 
for breeding ; for I have obferved, that their ifiue always rh~ 
fembles them. There are others fo petulant that they beat 
the hen off the neft and prevent her from fitting : thefe are 
the ftrongeft birds, the heft fingers, and often the moft beau- 
tiful and familiar ; others break the eggs and kill the young, 
that they may the longer enjoy the female. Others have a 
remarkable predilection and marked preference for certain 
females. A cock placed among twenty hens will fingle out 
one or two which he will conftantly attend and make love 
to without minding the reft. Thefe cocks are of a good natu- 
ral temper, which they communicate to their progeny. Others 
do not attach themfelves to any female, but remain fterile 
and inactive. The fame difference of temper and manners 
is found among the hens.. The jonquil-coloured hens art. 
