. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . rankfort, in the year1610, gives the first good description of them. 2. p. 355. What colour they are in their original native coun-try, is not clearly ascertained. Writers seem to concurin supposing them to be green and yellow, and to beara near resemblance to our siskin, or aberdavine. Al-drovandus, in the place above cited, describing theCanarybird from Gesner, says, Avis est vulgaris pari 7
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . rankfort, in the year1610, gives the first good description of them. 2. p. 355. What colour they are in their original native coun-try, is not clearly ascertained. Writers seem to concurin supposing them to be green and yellow, and to beara near resemblance to our siskin, or aberdavine. Al-drovandus, in the place above cited, describing theCanarybird from Gesner, says, Avis est vulgaris pari 7nagnitudine, rostra parvo et in acutum tendente: alarum^ et caudce pennis totis viridi color, Sec. He has givena small figure, which he calls canariainas, table 14,Jigure 31. It is, however, probable, the Canarybirdwas not known in England till after the time of Aldro-vandus, though Willughby, in his History of Birds,tells us, they were common enough in his time. But whatever they originally were, their coloursare so much mingled and changed by domestication,and their number so greatly encreased, that to giveparticular descriptions, would be an almost endless, aswell as unnecessary c 36NEST AND EGGS OF THE CANARYBIRD. PLATE XXXVI. The nest I described was built in a green-house, onthe branch of a small-leafed myrtle. The general shapeof the nest was the same as that of a linnet or goldfinch,round and handsome. The materials of which it wascomposed were such as had been brought in for thepurpose by the gardener; moss, wool, feathers. were all indiscriminately blended the gardener told me, that if he brought her alittle down, wool, or a few feathers, after she had be-gun laying, she would place them on the outside, orround the brim of the nest, still encreasing it till thetime she begun to sit. Three eggs were in the nest at the time I made thedrawing. They were white, spotted with small redspots. If the breeders of Canarybirds would furnish therooms
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