. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. net called Little Pope {Fringillalinaria) is distinguishable from the one called Little Brother {F. montium) by a black patchon the chin and a red skull, both birds being ofa fine reddish brown. Though they do not sing,they have their place in the aviary, where theircolors give infinite pleasure. In Germany it wasformerly the fashion, as it still is elsewhere, tohave competitions of singing birds, for whichbreeders were in the habit of putting out the of violet-brown specks. The bird can be taughtall sorts of tunes, provided r
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. net called Little Pope {Fringillalinaria) is distinguishable from the one called Little Brother {F. montium) by a black patchon the chin and a red skull, both birds being ofa fine reddish brown. Though they do not sing,they have their place in the aviary, where theircolors give infinite pleasure. In Germany it wasformerly the fashion, as it still is elsewhere, tohave competitions of singing birds, for whichbreeders were in the habit of putting out the of violet-brown specks. The bird can be taughtall sorts of tunes, provided respect is paid to hiscaprices ; that is to say, the same gestures, thesame flatteries, the same little coaxing words,must be used, and even the same coat shouldbe worn when the lessons are given! Well-taught bullfinches are worth their weight ingold. A great trade in them is carried on bythe poorer classes of Thuringia. From the zoological point of view the^rZ/fw-Jiavtmcr or bnntitiff (Einbrrica citrinclla) is alink between the finch and the hirk. In its wild M i. m The Si-ring eyes of the shyest species with the false andcruel idea that blindness improved their huUfiiiih is a queer fellow in an aviary,and full of self-importance in a cage. Still it iseasy to keep him in captivity and to raise hisyoung. He is very nervous, it is true, and heflutters about continually; but if we onceknow his peculiar tastes (all finches differmaterially in their choice of food), these birdswith their beautiful colors are easy to raise andwell worth their price. They rival many ofthe tropical birds in color. The bullfinch ofthe north of Europe {Pyrrhuhi vulgaris) ismuch larger than the bullfinch of this eggs are greenish blue, with a little circle state it lives among reeds, and is more or lesssquat in figure. Thanks to its beautiful yellowcolor and its very soft, melodious whistle, it isvery acceptable in the aviary, though in captiv-it) it is apt to lose one or bot
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