. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 776 THE XATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. I'h"l(.KKi|,h hy Willard A CHINESE GENTLEMAN TAKES HIS BIRD EOR AN AIRING Attached to the end of a knobby stick, the pet may flutter, preen, or sinR. If street commotion frightens him, he is popped into the dim privacy of the cloth-covered cage in his master's left hand. The dignified stroller's large round "specs" are a sign of learning. Chinese cage birds include Java , titmice, bulbuls, native thrushes, doves, and starlings. duced. St. Andreasberg, in the Harz Mou
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 776 THE XATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. I'h"l(.KKi|,h hy Willard A CHINESE GENTLEMAN TAKES HIS BIRD EOR AN AIRING Attached to the end of a knobby stick, the pet may flutter, preen, or sinR. If street commotion frightens him, he is popped into the dim privacy of the cloth-covered cage in his master's left hand. The dignified stroller's large round "specs" are a sign of learning. Chinese cage birds include Java , titmice, bulbuls, native thrushes, doves, and starlings. duced. St. Andreasberg, in the Harz Moun- tains of Germany, has long been the center for breeding roller canaries, though now thev are produced in other countries, too (pages 777, 778, and 780). The ordinary roller canary has a reper- toire of from five to ten of the various trills recognized by the A larger number is unusual. Although roller canaries are thus care- fully trained in the finer points of their profession, the sweet song of this variety is inherited. That fact has been proved by experiments in which young birds were reared in sound- proof cages complete- ly isolated from the songs of other birds. In time the males de- veloped the type of song of the roller canary. "COLOR feeding" TURNS CANARIES ORANGE About seventy years ago lovers of canaries were astonished to see in the hands of a few breeders birds of a beautiful deep-orange color. They were products of a process called "color feeding.'' For years those who had this secret guard- ed it carefully, but finalh' it became known that the inten- sified color was the result of adding red pepper to the diet dur- ing the period of molt. Color feeding is simple. Birds of good natural hue are se- lected and, at the very beginning of the molt, in addition to the reg- ular diet of seed and greens, they are given a food prepared by mixing one part of finely ground sweet red pepper to two parts o f egg food (made from equal parts of hard-b
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