. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. dsome, like the littleswallozv canaries, the wings of which are of adifferent color from the head, the spotted, thestriped, and the albinos. The latter, like all THE BIRDS OF THE AVIARY 275 animals in which we see a failure of eolor, aregenerally weak and poor singers. We must now take lea\e of these charmingdomestic birds and study others less musicallygifted, but nevertheless very worthy of attention. VII. Other Colored Song-BirdsWithout tracing the line between the graniv-orous and the carnivorous species, we mustname a few
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. dsome, like the littleswallozv canaries, the wings of which are of adifferent color from the head, the spotted, thestriped, and the albinos. The latter, like all THE BIRDS OF THE AVIARY 275 animals in which we see a failure of eolor, aregenerally weak and poor singers. We must now take lea\e of these charmingdomestic birds and study others less musicallygifted, but nevertheless very worthy of attention. VII. Other Colored Song-BirdsWithout tracing the line between the graniv-orous and the carnivorous species, we mustname a few of the io\dus songsters who inhabit and solid, with perches and poles ; the foodshould be flaxseed, soaked bread, and antseggs. The sitting lasts sixteen days ; the eggsare greenish blue with little dark brown 1^ild tlinish has a way of perching, in theearly morning, on the top branch of a tree towarble his matin song : Thats the wise thrush, who sings each song twice you .should think he never could recaptureIts lirst tine, careless The .-\vi.\ry of the King of our cages and aviaries. We find among themmany beautiful birds of pure stock and manybastards, known in different lands under suchdifferent names that it would take whole booksto record them. The same bird may have tenor a dozen names ; consequently it is best to putthe Latin name after the familiar name of we will take the thrush family {Tiinii)and its singing master {Tiirdiis mitsicus). Wefind him here and there as a bird of passage,though he makes his home throughout Europegenerally. He is easy to raise and to accustomto confinement, but the cage must be large The hen bird builds her nest by preferencenear water. The black ilniish ( Iurdiis uifniia), a Euro-pean bird, commonly called blackbird there,is a wary, cunning fellow, but not so wary thathe does not readily get accustomed to captivityin a cage. His whistle is lively, and he tries toimitate the songs of other
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