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See also:CANARY (Serinus canarius) , a well-known See also:species of passerine See also:bird, belonging to the See also:family Fringillidae or finches (see See also:FINCH). It is a native of the Canary Islands and See also:Madeira, where it occurs abundantly in the See also:wild See also:state, and is of a greyish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:colour, slightly varied with brighter hues, although never attaining the beautiful plumage of the domestic bird. It was first domesticated in See also:Italy during the 16th See also:century, and soon spread over See also:Europe, where it is now the most See also:common of cage-birds. During the years of its domestication, the canary has been the subject of careful artificial selection, the result being the See also:production of a bird differing widely in the colour of its plumage, and in a few of its varieties even in See also:size and See also:form, from the See also:original wild species. The prevailing colour of the most admired varieties of the canary is yellow, approaching in some cases to See also:orange, and in others to See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white; while the most robust birds are those which, in the dusky See also:green of the upper See also:surface of their plumage, show a distinct approach to the wild forms. The least prized are those in which the plumage is irregularly spotted and speckled. In one of the most esteemed varieties, the wing and tail feathers are at first See also:black--a peculiarity, however. which disappearsafter the first moulting. Size and form have also been modified by domestication, the wild canary being not more than 51 in. in length, while a well-known Belgian variety usually See also:measures 8 in. There are also hooped or bowed canaries, See also:feather-footed forms and See also:top-knots, the latter having a distinct See also:crest on the See also:head; but the offspring of two such top-knotted canaries, instead of showing an increased development of crest, as might be expected, are See also:apt to be bald on'the See also:crown. Most of the varieties, however, of which no fewer than twenty-seven were recognized by See also:French breeders so See also:early as the beginning of the 18th century, differ merely in the colour and the markings of the plumage. Hybrids are also common, the canary breeding freely with the See also:siskin, See also:goldfinch, citril, See also:greenfinch and See also:linnet. The hybrids thus produced are almost invariably sterile. It is the See also:female canary which is almost invariably employed in See also:crossing, as it is difficult to get the See also:females of the allied species to sit on the artificial See also:nest used by breeders. In a state of nature canaries pair, but under domestication the male bird has been rendered polygamous, being often put with four or five females; still he is said to show a distinct preference for the female with which he was first mated. It is from the others, however, that the best birds are usually obtained. The canary is very prolific, producing eggs, not exceeding six in number, three or four times a See also:year; and in a state of nature it is said to breed still oftener. The See also:work of See also:building the nest, and of See also:incubation, falls chiefly on the female, while the See also:duty of feeding the See also:young rests mainly with the See also:cock bird. The natural See also:song of the canary is loud and clear; and in their native groves the See also:males, especially during the pairing See also:season, pour forth their song with such ardour as sometimes to burst the delicate vessels of the See also:throat. The males appear to compete with each other in the brilliancy of their See also:melody, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to attract the females, which, according to the See also:German naturalist Johann Matthaus Bechstein (1757–1822) always select the best singers for their mates. The canary readily imitates the notes of other birds, and in See also:Germany and especially See also:Tirol, where the breeding of canaries gives employment to a large number of See also:people, they are usually placed for this purpose beside the See also:nightingale. (A.
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