. The roller canary : its breeding, rearing, and training . n I X PQ e f ffl THE ROLLER CANARY 99 In bell we always have the opened beak; in hollowbell, the beak is closed, or, at any rate, only very slightlyopen, the beak and throat space is hollowed out, and thismeans that the ii gains in volume and comes out as afull, round, hollow tour. The closer the beak is keptthe more perfect the sound. The finest effect and the fullest tonality in this tourare produced when the bird, with closed beak, sounds afull u with a gently breathed consonant 1, thus:lullulliillu; hollow bell, with the h, thus:
. The roller canary : its breeding, rearing, and training . n I X PQ e f ffl THE ROLLER CANARY 99 In bell we always have the opened beak; in hollowbell, the beak is closed, or, at any rate, only very slightlyopen, the beak and throat space is hollowed out, and thismeans that the ii gains in volume and comes out as afull, round, hollow tour. The closer the beak is keptthe more perfect the sound. The finest effect and the fullest tonality in this tourare produced when the bird, with closed beak, sounds afull u with a gently breathed consonant 1, thus:lullulliillu; hollow bell, with the h, thus: Huhuhuhii, is not commonly met with, but is notexactly a bad form. ON VALUING A TOUR The speed at which the syllables follow one another,the rate of delivery, is a point for consideration invaluing the tour as well as its tone quality; a vigorousdelivery, with fast repetition of the syllables well con-nected together, is not tiresome, and will have scarcelyany prejudicial effect on the tunefulness of the song, buta slow, dragging, tame delivery is weariso
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