. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . has its own characteristicindividuality, and is a study in itself, ever varying inits mood with the changing circumstances of the sunshine gay, in winter dull, in spring-time full oflife and vigour, in autumn moulting, and sick, andweak; when courting the most ardent of lovers, whenmarried the most dutiful and affectionate of husbands,helping their wives with the most assiduous attentionwhen making their nest, and superintending thebringing up and education of their family with exem-plar
. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . has its own characteristicindividuality, and is a study in itself, ever varying inits mood with the changing circumstances of the sunshine gay, in winter dull, in spring-time full oflife and vigour, in autumn moulting, and sick, andweak; when courting the most ardent of lovers, whenmarried the most dutiful and affectionate of husbands,helping their wives with the most assiduous attentionwhen making their nest, and superintending thebringing up and education of their family with exem-plary regularity and care, now receiving some delicatemorsel from their owners hand, and then showing theirgratitude by repaying him with a song. Such are someof the many attractive qualities of the canary, such arethe traits of character which our own present to ourdaily notice. The reader, therefore, may judge forhimself whether we have overrated the merits of thesecharming birds, or can possibly be wrong in thus re-commending them to the more fiivorable notice of thepublic. I THE LIZARD S:rANC;LE AND LADY GREY. Oar Lizards. 21 ■ Birds ! birds ! ye are beautiful things. With your earth-treading feet, and your cloud-cleaviug wings; Where shall man wander, and where shall he dwell, Beautiful birds, that ye come not as well ? Ye have nests on the mountain, all rugged and stark. Ye have nests in the forest, all tangled and dark; Ye build and ye brood neath the cottagers eaves. And ye sleep on the sod mid the bonnie green leaves; Ye hide in the heather, ye lurk in the brake. Ye dive in the sweet flags that shadow the lake; Ye skim where the stream paits the orchard-decked land, Ye dance where the foam sweeps the desolate strand. Beautiful birds! ye come thickly around. When the buds on the branch and the snows on the ground; Ye come when the richest of roses flush out. And ye come when the yellow leaf eddies about. Beautiful birds ! how the schoolboy remembers The warblers
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