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The Animal-Lore of Shahspeare’s Time . 
“ The principal iland of them all, is that of Tercera,. . the iland hath 
not any wild beasts or fowles, but very few, having onely canary birds, 
which are there by thousands, where many birders take them, and 
thereof make a daily living, by carrying them into divers places.” 
(Purchas , vol. iv. p. 1669.) 
In an account by Laurence Aldersey, merchant of 
London, of his journey to Jerusalem and Tripolis, in 1581, 
he relates that he stopped at Augusta, in Germany, where 
a resident, to whom he had an introduction, took him 
through the town to show him the sights:— 
“He shewed me first the State House, which is very faire, and 
beautifull. Then he brought mee to the finest garden, and orchard, 
that ever I sawe in my life: for there was in it a place for canarie 
birdes, as large as a faire chamber, trimmed with wier both above and 
beneath, with fine little branches of trees for them to sit in, which was 
full of those canaries birdes.” ( Halduyt , vol. ii. p. 268.) 
Gascoigne, who died in 1577, tells us that— 
“ Canara byrds come in to beare the bell.” 
(Complaint of Phylomena.) 
Belon, who wrote about the year 1555, does not mention 
the canary. It was sometimes called the sugar-bird , from 
a supposed fondness for the sugar-cane. 
Drayton places the Linnet second only to the 
nightingale in his list of songsters, and 
Linnet. ^ . ° 
Gascoigne writes :— 
“ The lennet and the larke, they sing alofte, 
And coumpted are as lordes in high degree.” 
(Complaint of Phylomena.') 
Sir Thomas Browne in his catalogue of Norfolk birds 
includes the Crossbill; he states that it was 
r 1 * at times kept as a cage bird, but that it 
never survived its captivity throughout the winter. In 
Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, published 1602 (p. 73), occurs 
mention of the crossbill, though not actually by name :— 
“ Not long since, there came a flock of birds into Cornwall, about 
