. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. CANARIES AND OTHER CAGE-BIRD FRIENDS. Photograph b\ L ^t [h n\ ^tr\ art "take home a canary to carol on CHRISTMAS AND SING IN THE NEW YEAR ' At a limited-price variety store in Wasiiington, D. C, imported roller and other canaries are offered for sale—as well as all the "fixin's," such as bird seed, bird medicines, perches, cage covers, and cages. In the last year this store alone sold 3,300 canaries. in body than the zebra finch and is even more strikingly marked (Color Plate VI). It is native in eastern Austral
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. CANARIES AND OTHER CAGE-BIRD FRIENDS. Photograph b\ L ^t [h n\ ^tr\ art "take home a canary to carol on CHRISTMAS AND SING IN THE NEW YEAR ' At a limited-price variety store in Wasiiington, D. C, imported roller and other canaries are offered for sale—as well as all the "fixin's," such as bird seed, bird medicines, perches, cage covers, and cages. In the last year this store alone sold 3,300 canaries. in body than the zebra finch and is even more strikingly marked (Color Plate VI). It is native in eastern Australia. In the bush, diamond finches make long bottle-shaped nests of grass in which to place their four to seven white eggs. Often from three to a dozen of their homes may be placed beneath the great stick nest of a brown hawk or a whistling eagle, these large neighbors seeming entirely indifferent to the little birds living beneath them. Gouldian Finch Of all the Australian weavers the most at- tractive are the Gouldian finches (Poephila gouldiae), named by the English naturalist John Gould for his wife, in recognition of her long assistance to him in illustrating his books on birds. Viewed in the abstract, a combination color pattern composed of brilliant yellow, purple, black, red, and green can only impress the color-conscious person as gaudy. That this may not necessarily be true is shown by the trim form of the Gouldian finch, which, dressed in these identical colors, is beautiful and pleas- ing (Color Plate VI). These small birds, an attraction in any aviary, are natives of northern Australia. Their nests are the usual globular structures of grass, suspended in trees or bushes except when the birds elect to nest in holes of trees. The eggs are white. Gouldian finches breed readily in captivity, and many are reared for sale. For years it was supposed that the birds with black faces and those with red were distinct, while a third kind with orange head was also recognized. B
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