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-feendants. The Goldfinch is a very active bird, 
and in an aviary always endeavours to rooft on 
the higheft perch, | ; 
_ Their docility is very furprifing ; they have been 
: ~ taught to dance, to counterfeit death, to fire a 
little cannon, to move a fmall. litter, to open a 
_ box in which their food is kept, and to draw up 
| ye little bucket of water out of a glafs fufpended 
at fome diftance below their cage. 
_ Their fong is pleafing; they — to fing | in 
i “mer, “Bird: fanciers matend re the Goldfinches | 

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in Kent, excel thofe of every other county. 
_ They are fubject in confinement to epileptic 
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Tap CANARY-BIRD, 
The beak 18 ibniith, the bodya yellow ‘cele ae to white, | 
| The pte and tail feathers are of a green caft. 
“e ah inhabits the ean iflands, feeding princi- 
-~#pa lly upon ‘the feeds of the phalaris, or canary 
feed ; sin confinement it will eat hemp, flax, and ~ 
‘Tape feed; it breeds with the Goldfinch, and their - 
Young are fertile, but not in the fecond generation, 
Of this very interefting bird there are many 
pets the natural confequence of ike being . 
dometticated, 
