. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds; with remarks on their diseases and remedies; drawn from authentic sources and personal observation . anaries on board, that were consigned to Leghorn, waswrecked on the coast of Italy, and the birds, thereby obtainingtheir liberty, flew to the nearest land. This happened to beElba, where they found so propitious a climate, that they multi-plied without the intervention of man, and probably wouldhave naturalised themselves, had not the wish to possess
. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds; with remarks on their diseases and remedies; drawn from authentic sources and personal observation . anaries on board, that were consigned to Leghorn, waswrecked on the coast of Italy, and the birds, thereby obtainingtheir liberty, flew to the nearest land. This happened to beElba, where they found so propitious a climate, that they multi-plied without the intervention of man, and probably wouldhave naturalised themselves, had not the wish to possess thembeen so great as to occasion them to be hunted after until theywere entirely extirpated. In Italy, therefore, we fmd the firsttame Canaries, where they are still raised in great first, their rearing in Europe was attended with con-siderable difficulty, partly because the mode of treatingthese delicate strangers was not sufficiently understood, butprincipally because males, chiefly, and not females, wereintroduced. 28 THE CANARY BIRD. DESCRIPTION. The Canary bird is five inches in length, of which the tailcomprises two inches and a quarter; the beak is five lineslong, stout, sharply pointed, and whitish; the legs are flcsh-. CANARIES AND NEST. colored, and eight lines high. The female is scarcely to bedistinguished from the male, but the latter has generally deeperand brighter colors; the head is rather thicker; the body, ingeneral, more slender throughout; and the temples and the THE CANARY BIRD. 29 space around the eyes, are always of a brighter yellow thanthe rest of the body. The original grey color of this bird, which merges into greenbeneath, has, by means of domestication, climate, and inter-mixture with other birds, become so multifarious, that Canariesmay now be met with of almost every hue; but grey, yellow,white, blackish and reddish-brown, are the prevailing colors,which are individually seen in every degree of shade, or com-bination, and thus present
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