Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 541
AN ENGLISH SPARROW LEARNING THE CANARY S SONG. TRAINING ENGLISH SPARROWS TO BECOMEPLEASING SINGERS Who would have thought that the much-abusedEnglish sparrow, with his homely dress and mo-notonous chirp, possesses the ability to imitateto a large degree our most popular house-bird,the canary ? Dr.… … AN ENGLISH SPARROW ADDING HIS DISCORDANT NOTES TO THE HARSH SOUNDS OF HUMAN INDUSTRY. of the canary. To do this he placed some spar-row eggs, for the last few days previous to hatch-ing, in canary nests. These experiments failed, since the canaries did not make good guardiansfor the young sparrows.…
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