The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-04

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round, ana cut 1t away on side. as II for pen
then gently open their bill and give them one quill
mi AT time. AS soon as they leave the nest le
them alone. The male Will begin to twitter an
| Marble little, sometimes before he has left tn
nest They can be LEFT alone as soon as they begi
10 iced themselves. You win soon discover how
many male birds you have. Take the OLD nest on
OF the cage and put In stun for new one, and tn
OLD birds VIII mate again and begin building
sometimes the Old ones are ugly to the first brood
ana knock them around and pull their feathers out
they 10. take the young ones out OF the cage and
put them Dy themselves Put the young canary
perch very low down. Never get your sand for you,
birds from the sea beach. q salt VIII surely xii
| them.
| twenty years ago there were comparatively few
canary birds In America. Their price ranges nov
| from four to ten dollars apiece.
THE sIsKN,
| OF which we have spoken as crossing with Tn
canary Is quite favorlte for the cage HIS song Is
low, but he initiates the notes of some other birds.
The siskln will eat too much when allowed; there.
fore 1t best TO deal his raons Gus TO him. These
BIRDS are fed principally on poppy anu hemp seed
] pounded up. They are valued ct 81 and SO.
THE GRAY LINNET
ana the green linnet are very gratifying TO their
purchasers but the gray Is most admired. He has
q reddish shade on hts breast, ana his wings
and tail are grayish brown. They are five inches
long. The male gray linnet sings better than the
green one, the latter being larger bird by inch
or nearly so. The price Of this bird is generally So.
THE GREEN LINNEr
can be fed on rape and canary seed mixed. A
plenty Of bathing water and gravel on the bottom
OF the cage. They live IN cage seven or eigns
years. Their selling price is 50 or So
THE NIGHTINGALE.
OIL sooner shall the rose Of May
Aasaksner uvu ,Isu nightingale =.
a snsn We WI aQlbt That he Is the sweetest singer
---.opean Dlrds. lne Nightmares RANK
| among birds IS what the rose Is among flowers So
few are there In this country, 1t Is probable that
many or our readers never saw one. II is the
Utmost pa look ABOUT It's eyes, and IN length It !:
only little over i've inches, and shaped good
dea, IKE our cat bird It's head and back are gray
wing and tail feathers are quite o pretty dark
brown, and Its throat Is white.
sings best In Ireland In wild, free state; and IL
there 30 plainive, 80 tender that II the blarney
melted it long since. on for an opportunity to
hear them In the Emerald Isle ''when the befrtng
direct p' When Gagged the nightingale has been
10 live SIX or seven years but they frequently
| de Soon They require 2 great deal OF care;
square, covered overhead with green muslin, wad.
ded with three or four layers Of cotton or woo! to
| the cage Perches shouu be put low down In their
cages Buy the prepared food from the BIRD stores;
chose to prepare the food themselves we win tell
them how to do IT, The bird eats wheat Dran oat-
the carrot before you can press the juice Out. DO
not mix sti and be sure to change 1t often enough
70 and e S S1 e e e
bnt what they ike best In the way OF meat are meal
worms, The latter have to breed In the follow:
six eight quarts, Ill 1t half full Of wheat middngs
or bran and handful or two OF corn meal then lake
an old leather shoe and cut It In little chips and and
Is much old woolen rags and handful OF brown
paper. torn up. with o little brown sugar on the
paper, and mix these all through the bran; and then
lay in fifty or q hundred meal worms, after which
put on TIN cover with dminutive holes IN II TO al
low AIR, and set il for three months where 1t will
be warm. The worms viii then turn to beetlebuas,
which will lay eggs tnat will hatca out meal worms
AGAIN; give the nightmares half dozen Of these
after the feet Of the birds, as they frequently die
from Ieet Take little CASTLE soap and luke
warm water and soak their feet IN II, and grease
them with new cnurned butter. Keep the cage well
gravelled and Clean Give the ngntingales spiders
to eat, they consider them luxury. Spiders
| good for them, and during the m0unng season ne
| cessity. These BIRDS require warm room. but
In an old work called 'Russel's ApeIloD 1t Is
stated that In ASIA and Persia the nlgntngaes sing
Fix months VI the year In their wild state-sng1ng
both by day and by night-lrom the pomegranate
groves In the daytime and from the Hottest by
| importance TO them In o superslt0us way For
ms tance Russell tells us "wnen about to start on
| journey they go TO the seaside or Drookside and
listen for the nightingale Tor bulbul ana when
they hear they throw into the water the flower OF
the cocoanut tree and start. This insures pros.
Dropping the superstitOns OF the Asatlcs and Per.
SLAMS, we come back TO the nightingale, about
winch we have not space to say more tnan that ne
is called the liking OF songsters" by reason OF the
greatest compass and greatest variety OF notes. and
each one II possible, sweeter than the other. The
selling price among US varies from $50 to $780, We
will add that the nightingale Is fond OF ederberries
and dried currants; but before you give them the
bird be sure TO wash them clean.
THE ENGLISH sKyLARx.
Emblem or happiness.
B f,s. son e.. and Sum6eress,
Over the cloudlct dim,
Over the rainbow's rim,
Eose saS safIsS ;Ssr s1sS ss1 aTs{
Where art thou journeyingY
He Is noted bird, and justly so. The sKylark has
way OF MS own ABOUT flying that no other bird mas.
When he leaves his nest ne flies ia a perpendicular
line; and lie opens ms pretty throat he scars.
and upward and onward he goes, his song growing
faint and fainter until It seems ike celestial music
for ne IL lost In the clouds and you see nun
several minutes. You strain your eyes with watch
Ing, and then you behold little mote and you
know ne Is coming. You think you hear him; III an
instant you know you do, for down To earth again
the clear full sound Is sent, ana he alights
along through the grass as sIyy as If he thought
some lurking, unseen foe might be watching for
oS wsy IN safety 20 to DC wSe n uea 10
tlful Lady Lorelei has sat for ages comb
ing her down,nowng HAIR with golden
comb. and listen like INN to the wild, wOndrous
and mighty song she sings, the whiic she SINKS
the sailor and his snip. We would ike to see for
ourself whether It true that II the lady leaves or
c0mbing for one single instant tile whole SKY puts
on mourning, the storm king gets angry whistles
and goes abroad. But we must leave the storm King
and the beautiful Lady Lorelei and our own vain
desire, aud tain only OF the skylark OF England,
whlch Is precisely that OF America 10 dot. We
love the skYIark, and wish we could write out MS
notes for such OF our lady readers as nave not
heard is, him when ne FIRST gets up OF mornins.n
But whoever could write out the notes OF the skyarK
or measure mis- metre could make scales with which
10 weigh out the priceless value OF true love and
frlendship-either OF which Is too nne for US; put
we may presume TO tell you how he looks. He
| IL pretty fellow, pert and strong, with a
breast ana sides spotted all over with dark
brown on an almost white groundwork HIS
PACK Is Drownsh, and spotted likewise.
he Is nearly eignt inches long, with large, beaut-
| iui eye Tne skylark mas one spot LOO many, how
ever, and this one spot Is the wrong place It Is
| on MS eScutcheon. lie RODS other birda of their