Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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echmast, worms, cock-chafers, and other insects, as well as mice, frogs, and small reptiles. Jays are of an inquisitive and garrulous disposition, and their true note is decidedlyharsh ; but they have great powers of mimicry, and may be taught to imitate a varietyof sounds, even learning to talk slightly. A Jay may be confined in a large cage, orif very tame may be allowed to range the house. Feed as for the Raven. The Starling is a very handsome bird, and is especially beautiful when the sun shinesupon its glossy speckled feathers as it runs upon the lawn searching for worms or insects.It is of a very garrulous disposition, as indeed many can testify who have been awakenedby its peculiar screaming (it cannot be dignified by the name of song), while in the earlymorning it sits perched upon a neighbouring chimney-pot. They often build in a spout onthe roof of a house, or in the holes of trees, a very loosely constructed nest, with several Cassells Canaries a^ Cage Birds. ^.M^tt^i^enfai
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