IgO* SISKIN, or ABE R D U"V I N E . ■ 
an idea of their procedure in thofe operations 
which tend to the multiplication of the fpecies, 
we have only to make them breed in a room, 
which they would do, though indeed the expe- 
riment has been fever a 1 times tried unfuccefsful- 
ly : but it is more common and more eafy to 
crofs the breed of this race with the Canary- 
Bird : there is a fympathy fo marked between 
thefe two fpecies, that if a cock Siiikin is put 
into a place where there are many Canary- 
Birds, he goes direct !y towards them, keeps as 
near them as pofiible, and they alfo court him 
with as much eager nefs : if a cock and hen 
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Sifkin be let fly in the fame room with a num- 
ber of Canary-Birds, thefe laflr will pair indif- 
ferently with the former, or with thofe of their 
own fpecies ; but. the male Sifkin is fometimes 
left unprovided.. 
When a cock Sifkin has paired with a hen 
Canary-Bird, he partakes in all her labours 
with zeal 5 he afuduoufly helps her in bringing 
materials for the neft, and in uling them, and 
never fails to feed her while fhe is fitting ; but 
notwithfbmding this co-operation, it mull be 
confeffed that the greateft part of tire eggs are 
dear. A union of difpofitions is not fufncient 
to operate fecundation ; there needs likewife a 
certain conformity of temperament, in which 
refped the S Iki n is far below the female Ca- 
nary-Bird. The few .mule birds that are the 
