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A DESCRIPTION OF 
soon as the bird is domesticated. This bird is one of the 
first whose appearance announces the spring. 
The Green Linnet is rather larger than the house spar- 
row. Its head and back are of a yellowish green, the 
edges of the feathers grayish; the rump and breast more 
yellow. The plumage of the female is much less vivid, 
inclining to brown. Its song is trifling, but in confine- 
ment it becomes tame and docile, and will catch the notes 
of other birds. 
THE CANARY-BIRD, (Fringilla Canaria.} 
As his name imports, this bird is a native of the Canary 
Islands ; where, in his wild state, he has a dusky gray 
plumage, and a much stronger voice than when in a cage. 
In our northern countries his feathers undergo a great al- 
teration ; and the bird becomes entirely white or yellow. 
This effect of cold, upon animals of all kinds, is general 
and progressive, according to the distance of the climate 
from the equator. Of this bird, Buffbn says, " that if the 
nightingale is the chantress of the woods, the Canary is 
the musician of the chamber ; the first owes all to nature, 
the second something to art. With less strength of organ, 
less compass of voice, and less variety of note, the Canary 
has a better ear, greater facility of imitation, and a more 
